Air-sea interaction over ocean fronts and eddies

Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans

Volumn 45, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 274-319

  Small, R J ^a,j   deSzoeke, S P ^a,b   Xie, S P ^a,c   O'Neill, L ^d,j   Seo, H ^e,f   Song, Q ^d,g   Cornillon, P ^g   Spall, M ^h   Minobe, S ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^h WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

ⁱ HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^j NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

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Author keywords

Agulhas current; Air sea interaction; Boundary layers; Eddies; Fronts; Gulf stream; Kuroshio; Meteorology; Oceanography

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CORRELATION METHODS; FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; FLOW INTERACTIONS; GRADIENT METHODS; MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; TROPOSPHERE; WIND EFFECTS; WIND STRESS;

AGULHAS CURRENT; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; AIR-SEA INTERACTIONS; ATMOSPHERIC RESPONSES; CLOUD COVERS; EASTERN PACIFIC; EDDIES; FIELD DATA; FRONTS; GULF STREAM; GULF STREAMING; HIGH-RESOLUTION SATELLITE DATA; KUROSHIO; MARINE ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYERS; METEOROLOGY; MID-LATITUDES; NEGATIVE CORRELATIONS; NUMERICAL MODELLING; OCEANOGRAPHY; PHYSICAL MECHANISMS; PHYSICAL PROCESSES; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; PRESSURE GRADIENTS; RETURN CURRENT; SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURFACE STABILITY; WIND SPEED; WIND STRESS CURL;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE MODELING; EDDY; HEAT FLUX; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC FRONT; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; WIND STRESS; WIND VELOCITY;

AGULHAS CURRENT; ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF STREAM; INDIAN OCEAN; KUROSHIO CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST);

EID: 39049138051     PISSN: 03770265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dynatmoce.2008.01.001     Document Type: Article

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