A global view of air-sea thermal coupling and related non-Gaussian SST variability

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 140-149

  Sura, Philip ^a   Sardeshmukh, Prashant D ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Air sea interaction; Boundary layer; Climate variability; Sea surface temperature; Stochastics

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; BOUNDARY-LAYER; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STOCHASTICS;

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLIMATOLOGY; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE VARIATION; HEAT TRANSFER; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 68149178342     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2008.08.008     Document Type: Article

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