Intercomparison of air-sea interface fluxes over the Yellow Sea and Korea Strait: Impact of Tsushima warm current

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 127, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 333-344

  Subrahamanyam, D Bala ^a   Radhika, Ramachandran ^b   Rani, S Indira ^a   Kunhikrishnan, P K ^a   Kumar, B Prasad ^c  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

^b Lok Nayaka Bhavan   (India)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Air sea interface fluxes; Atmospheric surface layer; Tsushima warm current

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BUOYS; HEAT FLUX; MOISTURE; OCEANOGRAPHY; TURBULENT FLOW;

AIR-SEA INTERFACE FLUXES; ATMOSPHERIC SURFACE LAYER; SURFACE-LAYER METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BUOYS; HEAT FLUX; MOISTURE; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; TURBULENT FLOW;

AIR TEMPERATURE; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; HEAT FLUX; MOISTURE FLUX; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURFACE LAYER;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; KOREA STRAIT; PACIFIC OCEAN; YELLOW SEA;

EID: 41849099262     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-007-9248-8     Document Type: Article

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