Surface heat budget of the Sea of Okhotsk during 1987-2001 and the role of sea ice on it

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 653-677

  Ohshima, Kay I ^a   Watanabe, Tomohiro ^a   Nihashi, Sohey ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; HEAT BUDGET; HEAT FLUX; SEA ICE; SEASONAL VARIATION;

SEA OF OKHOTSK;

EID: 0344898276     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.81.653     Document Type: Article

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