Tropical Atlantic sea surface temperature and heat flux simulations in a coupled GCM

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 15, 2006, Pages

  Siqueira, Léo ^a   Nobre, Paulo ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYS; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SOLAR RADIATION;

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; OCEANIC THERMAL STRUCTURE; STRATUS CLOUDS;

GEOPHYSICS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; BUOY SYSTEM; HEAT FLUX; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SIMULATION; SOLAR RADIATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 33845648429     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL026528     Document Type: Article

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