The global climatology of an interannually varying air - Sea flux data set

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 33, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 341-364

  Large, W G ^a   Yeager, S G ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATOLOGY; DATA SET; GLOBAL CLIMATE; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; OCEAN BASIN; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SOLAR RADIATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURFACE WIND; WIND STRESS; WIND VELOCITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH);

EID: 67649159670     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-008-0441-3     Document Type: Article

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