Implications of the oceanic thermal skin temperature deviation at high wind speed

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 16, 1999, Pages 2505-2508

  Donlon, C J ^a   Nightingale, T J ^b   Sheasby, T ^c   Turner, J ^d   Robinson, I S ^e   Emery, W J ^f  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^f University of Colorado   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CALIBRATION; DATA STRUCTURES; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMAL STRATIFICATION; WIND EFFECTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SPEED; SURFACE WATERS; WIND;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BULK SEA SURFACE SKIN TEMPERATURE; SEA SURFACE SKIN TEMPERATURE; SURFACE WIND SPEED; TEMPERATURE DEVIATION; ATMOSPHERIC OBSERVATIONS; HIGH WIND SPEED; MEAN VALUES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SKIN TEMPERATURES;

OCEANOGRAPHY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WIND VELOCITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033385803     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900547     Document Type: Article

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