Intra-decadal variability in the Ekman heat flux from scatterometer winds

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 17, 2002, Pages

  Sato, O T ^a   Polito, P S ^a   Timothy Liu, W ^b  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; REMOTE SENSING;

DECADAL VARIABILITY; EUROPEAN REMOTE SENSING SATELLITES; GLOBAL TEMPERATURES; HIGH RESOLUTION; LONG TIME SERIES; LOW FREQUENCY VARIABILITY; SCATTEROMETER WINDS; SURFACE WIND VECTOR;

HEAT FLUX;

EID: 0036768084     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL014775     Document Type: Article

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