Global average of air-sea CO2 transfer velocity from QuikSCAT scatterometer wind speeds

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Boutin, J ^a   Quilfen, Y ^b   Merlivat, L ^a   Piolle, J F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^b Centre Bretagne   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SPEED; WIND EFFECTS;

ABSOLUTE CALIBRATION; ATLANTIC OCEAN; GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION; HIGH QUALITY; IN-SITU; QUIKSCAT; SATELLITE WINDS; SCATTEROMETERS; SCHMIDT NUMBERS; SENSITIVITY STUDIES; SOUTHERN OCEAN; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; TRANSFER VELOCITY; WIND SPEED;

HURRICANE EFFECTS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CALIBRATION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON ISOTOPE; QUIKSCAT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SCATTEROMETER; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WIND VELOCITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 68149162342     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JC004168     Document Type: Article

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