Satellite evidence of wintertime atmospheric boundary layer responses to multiple SST fronts in the Japan Sea

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 23, 2008, Pages

  Shimada, Teruhisa ^a   Kawamura, Hiroshi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; HYDRODYNAMICS; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR; WIND EFFECTS;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYERS; COLD-AIR OUTBREAKS; JAPAN SEAS; LOWER ATMOSPHERES; MIXED BOUNDARIES; POLAR FRONTS; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURES; SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SST ANOMALIES; STEPWISE INCREASE; TURBULENT HEAT FLUXES; UNIFORM LAYERS; VERTICAL SHEARS; WATER VAPOR MIXING RATIOS; WIND DIVERGENCES; WIND SPEED;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

BOUNDARY LAYER; COLD AIR; HEAT FLUX; MIXING RATIO; POLAR FRONT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF JAPAN;

EID: 60149104574     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL035810     Document Type: Article

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