Impacts of winter storms on air-sea gas exchange

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 14, 2006, Pages

  Zhang, Weiqing ^a,b   Perrie, Will ^a,b,e   Vagle, Svein ^c,d  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^e NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); CLIMATE CHANGE; GAS DYNAMICS; SEAWATER; WIND EFFECTS;

AIR SEA GAS EXCHANGE; BUBBLE PENETRATION; GAS TRANSFER; WINTER STORMS;

STORMS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ASYMMETRY; BUBBLE; FIELD METHOD; GAS EXCHANGE; GAS TRANSPORT; MEASUREMENT METHOD; STORM; WAVE BREAKING; WINTER;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST);

EID: 33845677986     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL025257     Document Type: Article

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