Physical exchanges at the air-sea interface: UK-SOLAS field measurements

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 629-644

  Brooks, Ian M ^a   Yelland, Margaret J ^b   Upstill Goddard, Robert C ^c   Nightingale, Philip D ^d   Archer, Steve ^d   d'Asaro, Eric ^e   Beale, Rachael ^d   Beatty, Cory ^f   Blomquist, Byron ^g   Bloom, A Anthony ^a   Brooks, Barbara J ^a   Cluderay, John ^h   Coles, David ⁱ   Dacey, John ^j   DeGrandpr̈e, Michael ^f   Dixon, Jo ^d   Drennan, William M ^k   Gabriele, Joseph ^l   Goldson, Laura ^d   Hardman Mountford, Nick ^d   Hill, Martin K ^u   Horn, Matt ^m   Hsueh, Ping Chang ⁱ   Huebert, Barry ^g   De Leeuw, Gerrit ⁿ   Leighton, Timothy G ⁱ   Liddicoat, Malcolm ^d   Lingard, Justin J N ^a   McNeil, Craig ^e   McQuaid, James B ^a   Moat, Ben I ^b   Moore, Gerald ^d   Neill, Craig ^o   Norris, Sarah J ^a   O'Doherty, Simon ^p   Pascal, Robin W ^b   Prytherch, John ^b   Rebozo, Mike ^k   Sahlee, Erik ^k   Salter, Matt ^c   Schuster, Ute ^q   Skjelvan, Ingunn ^o   Slagter, Hans ^r   Smith, Michael H ^a   Smith, Paul D ^a   Srokosz, Meric ^b   Stephens, John A ^d   Taylor, Peter K ^b   Telszewski, Maciej ^q   Walsh, Roisin ^p   Ward, Brian ^s   Woolf, David K ^t   Young, Dickon ^p   Zemmelink, Henk ^h   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^h ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^j WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^l ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^m UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^o UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^p UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^q UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^r UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^s NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^t UNIVERSITY OF THE HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS   (United Kingdom)

^u NONE

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERFACE; CONTINUOUS MEASUREMENTS; DEGREE OF UNCERTAINTY; EDDY CORRELATION FLUXES; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FIELD MEASUREMENT; NORTH EAST ATLANTIC; OCEAN MIXED LAYERS; PARAMETERIZATION SCHEMES; RELEASE EXPERIMENTS; SEA SPRAY; SEA SURFACES; SURFACE OCEAN-LOWER ATMOSPHERE STUDIES; SURFACTANT CONCENTRATIONS; WAVE SPECTRA;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; OCEAN CURRENTS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

SURFACE CHEMISTRY;

EID: 68949220937     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008BAMS2578.1     Document Type: Article

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