The impact of satellite winds and latent heat fluxes in a numerical simulation of the tropical pacific ocean

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 22, 2006, Pages 5889-5902

  Ayina, Ludos Herve ^a   Bentamy, Abderrahim ^a   Mestas Nuñez, Alberto M ^b   Madec, Gurvan ^c  

^a Centre Bretagne   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BUOYS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT FLUX; OCEAN CURRENTS; REMOTE SENSING; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; SATELLITE TURBULENT FLUXES; TROPICAL PACIFIC OCEAN;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; BUOY SYSTEM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EL NINO; LATENT HEAT FLUX; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WIND STRESS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 33845686383     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3939.1     Document Type: Article

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