Quality of wind stress fields measured by the skill of a barotropic ocean model: Importance of stability of the Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  Ali, Ahmed Haider ^a   Zlotnicki, Victor ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PROBABILITY; WIND STRESS;

SEA-LEVEL MEASUREMENTS;

GEOPHYSICS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; BAROTROPIC MOTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; MODELING; WIND STRESS;

EID: 0038674955     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL016058     Document Type: Article

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