North Atlantic wind waves and wind stress fields from voluntary observing ship data

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1107-1130

  Gulev, Sergey K ^a,b   Hasse, Lutz ^a  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; DATA SET; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SEA STATE; WIND STRESS; WIND WAVE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032427005     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(1998)028<1107:NAWWAW>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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