A climatology of diurnal and semidiurnal surface wind variations over the tropical Pacific Ocean based on the Tropical Atmosphere Ocean moored buoy array

Journal of Climate

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 593-607

  Ueyama, Rei ^a   Deser, Clara ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BUOYS; OCEANOGRAPHY; TIDES; TROPICS; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND;

INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MERIDIONAL WIND VARIATIONS; SURFACE WIND VARIATIONS; ZONAL WIND;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

BOUNDARY LAYER; BUOY SYSTEM; CLIMATOLOGY; DIURNAL VARIATION; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MOORING SYSTEM; PRESSURE GRADIENT; WIND FORCING; ZONAL WIND;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 40849137763     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI1666.1     Document Type: Article

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