In situ-based pseudo-wind stress products for the tropical oceans

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 85, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 979-994

  Smith, Shawn R ^a   Servain, Jacques ^b   Legler, David M ^c   Stricherz, James N ^a   Bourassa, Mark A ^a   O'Brien, James J ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FUNCEME   (Brazil)

^c US CLIVAR Office   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; TROPICS; WEATHER FORECASTING; WEATHER SATELLITES; WIND STRESS;

OCEAN MODELS; TROPICAL OCEANS; WIND SPEED;

METEOROLOGY;

EID: 4143107874     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-85-7-979     Document Type: Article

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