Surface turbulent heat and momentum fluxes over global oceans based on the goddard satellite retrievals, version 2 (GSSTF2)

Journal of Climate

Volumn 16, Issue 20, 2003, Pages 3256-3273

  Chou, Shu Hsien ^a   Nelkin, Eric ^b   Ardizzone, Joe ^c   Atlas, Robert M ^a   Shie, Chung Lin ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^c SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; HEAT FLUX; IMAGE SENSORS; OCEAN ENGINEERING; TURBULENCE;

SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; GLOBAL OCEAN; HEAT FLUX;

EID: 0345415580     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2003)016<3256:STHAMF>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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