New insights into the ocean heat budget closure problem from analysis of the SOC air-sea flux climatology

Journal of Climate

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 2856-2880

  Josey, Simon A ^a   Kent, Elizabeth C ^a   Taylor, Peter K ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BUOYS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA STRUCTURES; HEAT FLUX; OCEANOGRAPHY; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; SHIPS; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

GLOBAL AIR SEA HEAT FLUX CLIMATOLOGY; OCEAN HEAT BUDGET CLOSURE PROBLEM;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ENERGY FLUX; HEAT BUDGET;

EID: 0033190393     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1999)012<2856:NIITOH>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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