Similarity relationships in the marine atmospheric surface layer for terms in the TKE and scalar variance budgets

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 55, Issue 13, 1998, Pages 2311-2328

  Edson, J B ^a   Fairall, C W ^b  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; KINETIC ENERGY;

EID: 0032418256     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1998)055<2311:SRITMA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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