Surface wind over Tropical Oceans: Diagnosis of the momentum balance, and modeling the linear friction coefficient

Journal of Climate

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1733-1747

  Chiang, John C H ^a   Zebiak, Stephen E ^b  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b Earth Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; CLIMATOLOGY; FRICTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; TROPICS; VISCOSITY OF GASES;

ZONAL FRICTION COEFFICIENT;

WIND;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; MOMENTUM; SURFACE WIND; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 0033948826     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2000)013<1733:SWOTOD>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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