Entrainment, Rayleigh friction, and boundary layer winds over the tropical Pacific

Journal of Climate

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 30-44

  Stevens, Bjorn ^a   Duan, Jianjun ^a   McWilliams, James C ^a   Münnich, Matthias ^a   Neelin, J David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR ENTRAINMENT; BOUNDARY LAYERS; MIXING; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT;

RAYLEIGH FRICTION;

CLIMATOLOGY;

BOUNDARY LAYER; DRAG; ENTRAINMENT; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; SURFACE WIND;

(TROPICAL); PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0036464874     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2002)015<0030:erfabl>2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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