Damping of tropical instability waves caused by the action of surface currents on stress

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Small, R Justin ^a,b   Richards, Kelvin J ^a,c   Xie, Shang Ping ^a,c   Dutrieux, Pierre ^c   Miyama, Tom ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DAMPING; PUMPS; STABILITY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS; WATER WAVES;

COUPLED MODELS; DAMPING MECHANISMS; E-FOLDING; EASTERN PACIFIC; EDDY KINETIC ENERGY; EKMAN PUMPING; HIGH RESOLUTION; IT IMPACT; NEAR-SURFACE WINDS; OCEAN EDDIES; OCEAN SURFACE CURRENTS; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE MODELS; RELATIVE MOTION; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS; STRESS CHANGES; STRESS FIELD; SURFACE CURRENT; SURFACE STRESS; TROPICAL INSTABILITY WAVES;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; DAMPING; EKMAN PUMPING; OCEANIC CURRENT; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST);

EID: 68149167775     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JC005147     Document Type: Article

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