Air-sea feedback in the North Atlantic and surface boundary conditions for ocean models

Journal of Climate

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 2310-2324

  Frankignoul, Claude ^a   Czaja, Arnaud ^a   L'Heveder, Blandine ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Air sea interaction; Atlantic Ocean (North); Boundary conditions; Climate modeling; Feedback mechanism; Heat flux; Sea surface temperature

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CLIMATE MODELING; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; HEAT FLUX; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

(NORTH); ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032455128     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1998)011<2310:ASFITN>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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