Coastal ocean wind fields gauged against the performance of an ocean circulation model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 14, 2004, Pages

  He, Ruoying ^a   Liu, Yonggang ^b   Weisberg, Robert H ^b  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COASTAL ZONES; IN SITU PROCESSING; INTERPOLATION; WIND;

COASTAL OCEAN WIND FIELDS; OCEAN CIRCULATION MODEL;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

COASTAL WATER; MOMENTUM TRANSFER; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; WIND FIELD; WIND-DRIVEN CURRENT;

EID: 4544257715     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL019261     Document Type: Article

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