Ocean tidal cooling effect on summer sea fog over the Okhotsk Sea

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 114, Issue 14, 2009, Pages

  Tokinaga, Hiroki ^a   Xie, Shang Ping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COOLING; MOON; SEA LEVEL; SHIPS; SIMULATORS; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC STABILITY; CLIMATE MODEL; COOL AIR; COOLING EFFECTS; FAVORABLE CONDITIONS; KURIL ISLAND; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OCEAN TIDES; OKHOTSK SEA; PERIODIC PHENOMENA; RICH STRUCTURE; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SEA FOG; SURFACE INVERSION LAYER; SURFACE WINDS; UPPER OCEAN; VERTICAL MIXING; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

FOG;

AIR TEMPERATURE; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; COOLING; FOG; INVERSION LAYER; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEAN TIDE; SURFACE WIND; VERTICAL MIXING;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF OKHOTSK;

EID: 70350044755     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JD011477     Document Type: Article

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