Relationship of oceanic whitecap coverage to wind speed and wind history

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 23, 2008, Pages

  Callaghan, Adrian ^a   De Leeuw, Gerrit ^b,c,d   Cohen, Leo ^d   O'Dowd, Colin D ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^d TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HURRICANE EFFECTS; WIND EFFECTS;

DATA POINTS; DATA SCATTERS; HISTORY EFFECTS; NORTH-EAST ATLANTIC; OVERLAPPING GROUPS; PIECE WISE; SEA SURFACES; W VALUES; WHITECAP COVERAGES; WIND SPEED;

SPEED;

AEROSOL; IMAGING METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; SEA SURFACE; WIND VELOCITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST);

EID: 60149086341     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL036165     Document Type: Article

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