Surface heat fluxes from the NCEP/NCAR and NCEP/DOE reanalyses at the Kuroshio Extension Observatory buoy site

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Kubota, Masahisa ^a   Iwabe, Noriyasu ^a   Cronin, Meghan F ^b   Tomita, Hiroyuki ^c  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BUOYS; CLIMATE CHANGE; HEAT FLUX; RAIN; SOLAR RADIATION; WIND;

ALGORITHM; BUOY SYSTEM; ERROR ANALYSIS; LATENT HEAT FLUX; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; SOLAR RADIATION;

KUROSHIO EXTENSION; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 42549105426     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JC004338     Document Type: Article

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