Wind energy input to the Ekman layer

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1267-1275

  Wang, Wei ^a   Huang, Rui Xin ^b  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; STORMS; WIND; WIND POWER;

AGEOSTROPHIC CURRENTS; AGEOSTROPHIC VELOCITY; WIND STRESS ENERGY;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EKMAN LAYER; ENERGY; GLOBAL OCEAN; PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY; WIND STRESS;

EID: 2942575792     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(2004)034<1267:WEITTE>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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