Satellite observations of cool ocean-atmosphere interaction

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2004, Pages

  Xie, Shang Ping ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUDS; NATURAL CONVECTION; OCEAN CURRENTS; REMOTE SENSING; WEATHER SATELLITES; WIND EFFECTS;

OCEAN DYNAMICS; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE INTERACTIONS; SURFACE WIND SIGNALS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

EID: 1142279891     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/bams-85-2-195     Document Type: Review

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