On scatterometer ocean stress

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 368-382

  Portabella, M ^a,b   Stoffelen, A ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^b CSIC Unidad de Tecnologia Marina UTM   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; ERROR VARIANCES; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; LEVEL 2; NEUTRAL WINDS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTIONS; OCEAN WINDS; PARAMETERIZATIONS; ROUGHNESS LENGTHS; SCATTEROMETER; SCATTEROMETERS; SPATIAL SCALE; STATISTICAL INFORMATIONS; STRESS ESTIMATIONS; SURFACE LAYERS;

METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WIND;

WIND STRESS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE PREDICTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA BUOY; DATA SET; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; SCATTEROMETER; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; WIND FORCING; WIND STRESS;

EID: 65549140332     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JTECHO578.1     Document Type: Article

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