Buoy observations from the windiest location in the world ocean, Cape Farewell, Greenland

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 18, 2008, Pages

  Moore, G W K ^a   Pickart, R S ^b   Renfrew, I A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SPEED; WIND EFFECTS;

AIR-SEA FLUXES; ATMOSPHERIC FLOWS; BUOY OBSERVATIONS; GREENLAND; HIGH WIND SPEEDS; IN-SITU; NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL REANALYSIS; OCEAN CIRCULATIONS; QUIKSCAT; QUIKSCAT SATELLITES; SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS; WIND SPEEDS; WORLD OCEANS;

HURRICANE EFFECTS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; METEOROLOGY; MOMENTUM; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; TOPOGRAPHY; WIND VELOCITY;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

EID: 57849143902     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL034845     Document Type: Article

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