Calculating long-term global air-sea flux of carbon dioxide using scatterometer, passive microwave, and model reanalysis wind data

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 113, Issue 9, 2008, Pages

  Fangohr, Susanne ^a   Woolf, David K ^a,b   Jeffrey, Christopher D ^a   Robinson, Ian S ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; CARBON DIOXIDE; FLOW OF GASES; FLOW VELOCITY; PARAMETERIZATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WIND;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CARBON DIOXIDE; DATA PROCESSING; DATA SET; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SCATTEROMETER; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 57049111079     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JC003376     Document Type: Article

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