Estimation of the surface heat flux response to sea surface temperature anomalies over the global oceans

Journal of Climate

Volumn 18, Issue 21, 2005, Pages 4582-4599

  Park, Sungsu ^a,b   Deser, Clara ^a   Alexander, Michael A ^c  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUDS; HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT FLUX; OCEANOGRAPHY; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; WIND EFFECTS;

NEGATIVE SHORTWAVE RADIATIVE FLUX; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SURFACE HEAT FLUX RESPONSE; SURFACE WIND SPEED;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; GLOBAL OCEAN; HEAT FLUX; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 29144513533     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3521.1     Document Type: Article

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