Monthly climatologies of oceanic friction velocity cubed

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 5700-5708

  Klinger, Barry A ^a,b   Huang, Bohua ^a,b   Kirtman, Ben ^a,b   Schopf, Paul ^a,b   Wang, Jiande ^c  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR OCEAN LAND ATMOSPHERE STUDIES   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; WIND STRESS;

OCEANIC FRICTION VELOCITY; WIND SPEED;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATOLOGY; WIND STRESS; WIND VELOCITY; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 33751399491     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3863.1     Document Type: Article

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