A new air-sea interaction gridded dataset from ICOADS with uncertainty estimates

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 645-656

  Berry, David I ^a   Kent, Elizabeth C ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR SEA INTERACTIONS; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC REANALYSIS; CLIMATE RESEARCH; DATA SETS; DIRECT MEASUREMENT; HEAT FLUX CALCULATION; IN-SITU; MEAN FIELD; MERCHANT SHIPS; METEOROLOGICAL VARIABLES; NATURAL VARIABILITY; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE; OPTIMAL INTERPOLATION; OR FLUXES; PARAMETERIZATIONS; RANDOM UNCERTAINTIES; RESEARCH ACTIVITIES; SEA TEMPERATURE; TIME-SCALES; UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATES; VOLUNTARY OBSERVING SHIPS;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; BUOYS; CLIMATOLOGY; HEAT FLUX; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; OCEANOGRAPHY; REACTOR CORES; SHIPS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 68949207911     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008BAMS2639.1     Document Type: Article

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