Estimating the energy flux from the wind to ocean inertial motions: The sensitivity to surface wind fields

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 15, 2005, Pages

  Jiang, Jing ^a,b   Lu, Youyu ^b   Perrie, Will ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WATER WAVES; WIND; WIND STRESS;

ENERGY FLUX; INERTIAL MOTIONS; SCATTEROMETER MEASUREMENTS; SLAB MIXED LAYER OCEAN MODEL; SURFACE WIND FIELDS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ENERGY FLUX; INERTIA; WIND FIELD;

EID: 25844474323     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023289     Document Type: Article

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