Stability-induced modification of sea surface winds over Gulf Stream rings

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 24, 2002, Pages

  Park, Kyung Ae ^a,b   Cornillon, Peter C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; OCEAN CURRENTS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; WIND;

AIR TEMPERATURE; MARINE BOUNDARY LAYERS; OCEAN SURFACE TEMPERATURE; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYER MODELS; SCATTEROMETERS; SEA SURFACE WIND; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; WARM CORE RINGS;

SURFACE WATERS;

EID: 0037847428     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001GL014236     Document Type: Article

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