Surface heat budgets and sea surface temperature in the Pacific warm pool during TOGA COARE

Journal of Climate

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 634-649

  Chou, Shu Hsien ^a   Zhao, Wenzhong ^b   Chou, Ming Dah ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b SM and A Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYS; HEAT FLUX; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SOLAR RADIATION; WEATHER SATELLITES; WIND;

COUPLED OCEAN ATMOSPHERIC RESPONSE EXPERIMENT; INTENSIVE OBSERVING PERIOD; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATIONS; PACIFIC WARM POOL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE IMAGER; SURFACE HEAT BUDGETS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

HEAT BUDGET; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TOGA-COARE; WARM POOL;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0034144681     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2000)013<0634:SHBASS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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