Increase in turbulent heat flux during the 1990s over the Kuroshio/Oyashio extension region

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1-5

  Tomita, Hiroyuki ^a   Kubota, Masahisa ^a  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; OCEANOGRAPHY; TURBULENCE; WIND;

JAPAN SEA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); TURBULENT HEAT FLUX; WIND SPEED;

HEAT FLUX;

HEAT FLUX; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TURBULENCE;

KUROSHIO CURRENT; OCEANIC REGIONS; OYASHIO CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN; WORLD;

EID: 21044436781     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL022075     Document Type: Article

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