Wintertime shoaling of oceanic surface mixed layer

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 22, 2003, Pages

  Takeuchi, Emiri ^a   Yasuda, Ichiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING; DATA REDUCTION; OCEANOGRAPHY; WIND EFFECTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; SURFACE WATERS;

SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); WIND STIRRING; MIXED LAYER; OCEANIC MIXED LAYERS; SURFACE FLUX; SURFACE MIXED LAYERS; WIND STIRRINGS; WORLD OCEAN;

GEOPHYSICS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; MIXED LAYER; SEA SURFACE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SHOALING WAVE; WINTER;

EID: 0942278139     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL018511     Document Type: Article

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