SST-wind interaction in coastal upwelling: Oceanic simulation with empirical coupling

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2957-2970

  Jin, Xin ^a   Dong, Changming ^a   Kurian, Jaison ^a   McWilliams, James C ^a   Chelton, Dudley B ^b   Li, Zhijin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA COUPLING; ANTICYCLONIC EDDIES; COASTAL UPWELLING; CURRENT SYSTEM; CYCLONIC EDDY; EDDY KINETIC ENERGY; MESOSCALE; MESOSCALE EDDY; MODEL FORMULATION; NEARSHORES; NET EFFECT; OCEANIC MODEL; ON FLOW; REGIONAL OCEANIC MODELING SYSTEMS; ROSSBY NUMBERS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; SPACE AND TIME; STATISTICAL RELATIONSHIP; SURFACE WIND STRESS; SURFACE WINDS; WIND FIELD; WIND PERTURBATIONS; WIND STRESS CURL;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERICS; CARBON FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; COASTAL ENGINEERING; COASTAL ZONES; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; WIND; WIND STRESS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANTICYCLONE; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CIRCULATION MODELING; COASTAL CIRCULATION; COASTAL ZONE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDDY; EKMAN LAYER; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; NEARSHORE DYNAMICS; ROSSBY NUMBER; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; UPWELLING; WIND FIELD; WIND STRESS;

EID: 73649123214     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JPO4205.1     Document Type: Article

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