Estimation of the impact of sampling errors in the VOS observations on air-sea fluxes. Part II: Impact on trends and interannual variability

Journal of Climate

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 302-315

  Gulev, Sergey ^a,c   Jung, Thomas ^b   Ruprecht, Eberhard ^c  

^a SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^c GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ESTIMATION; HEAT FLUX; OCEANOGRAPHY; SAMPLING;

AIR-SEA FLUXES; ATMOSPHERIC DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; COUPLED ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; VOLUNTARY OBSERVING SHIP (VOS);

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; DECADAL VARIATION; HEAT FLUX; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OCEANIC CONVECTION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE FLUX; TREND ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); LABRADOR SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 33846929847     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI4008.1     Document Type: Article

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