Limitation of one-dimensional ocean models for coupled hurricane-ocean model forecasts

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 4410-4419

  Yablonsky, R M ^a   Ginis, Isaac ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT ENERGY; HURRICANE-OCEAN MODEL; NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; OCEAN MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SEA SURFACES; SHEAR-INDUCED MIXING; SUBSEQUENT COOLING; UPPER OCEAN;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COOLING; HURRICANES; OCEANOGRAPHY; STORMS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 74949142278     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR2863.1     Document Type: Letter

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