Uncertainties in sea surface turbulent flux algorithms and data sets

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 107, Issue 10, 2002, Pages

  Brunke, Michael A ^a   Zeng, Xubin ^a   Anderson, Steven ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b HORIZON MARINE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Bulk aerodynamic algorithms; Global flux data sets; Hourly fluxes; Monthly fluxes; Sea surface turbulent fluxes

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ALGORITHM; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURFACE FLUX; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

(TROPICAL); ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0037110338     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001jc000992     Document Type: Article

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