Beyond thermal interaction between ocean and atmosphere: On the extratropical climate variability due to the wind-induced SST

Journal of Climate

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2001-2018

  Lee, Dong Eun ^a,b   Liu, Zhengyu ^a   Liu, Yun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; CURVE FITTING; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; EXPERIMENTS; HEAT FLUX; HEATING EQUIPMENT; LEAD; PHOTORESISTS; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACES; TEMPERATURE; THEOREM PROVING;

AIR TEMPERATURE (T); AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY (AMS); ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS (AGCMS); COUPLED MODELING; EXTENDED MODEL; EXTRATROPICAL CLIMATE VARIABILITY; INITIAL CONDITIONS; MID LATITUDES; MID-LATITUDES; OCEAN DYNAMICS; OCEAN TEMPERATURES; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE; SEA-SURFACE-TEMPERATURE (SST); STOCHASTIC PERTURBATIONS; SURFACE HEAT FLUXES; ZONAL WINDS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HEAT FLUX; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WIND FORCING;

EID: 45349101583     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JCLI1532.1     Document Type: Article

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