Temporal and spatial variation of the surface winds in the Gulf of California

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2003, Pages

  Pares Sierra A ^a   Mascarenhas, A ^b   Marinone, S G ^a   Castro, R ^b  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE BAJA CALIFORNIA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; OCEAN CURRENTS; STATISTICS; SURFACE WATERS;

SEA SURFACE WINDS; ANNUAL VARIABILITY; DERIVED DATA; GULF OF CALIFORNIA; OCEAN CIRCULATION MODELS; SEA SURFACE WIND; STANDARD DEVIATION; SURFACE WINDS; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIATION;

WIND;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; SEA SURFACE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WIND;

GULF OF CALIFORNIA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0041689824     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL016716     Document Type: Article

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