A climatology of ocean-atmosphere heat flux estimates over the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea: Implications for recent mass coral bleaching events

Journal of Climate

Volumn 21, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 3853-3871

  Weller, Evan ^a,b   Nunez, Manuel ^a   Meyers, Gary ^b   Masiri, Itsara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BUDGET CONTROL; CLIMATOLOGY; ERROR ANALYSIS; HEAT FLUX; HEATING EQUIPMENT; LANDFORMS; REEFS;

CORAL BLEACHING; CORAL SEA; DATA-SETS; GREAT BARRIER REEF; HEAT BUDGET; INDIVIDUAL COMPONENTS; INPUT PARAMETERS; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE; RMS ERRORS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SURFACE HEAT BALANCE; SURFACE HEAT BUDGET;

SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; CORAL BLEACHING; HEAT BUDGET; HEAT FLUX; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; CORAL SEA; GREAT BARRIER REEF; PACIFIC OCEAN; QUEENSLAND;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 53649100712     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JCLI2085.1     Document Type: Article

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