An assessment of surface heat fluxes from J-OFURO2 at the KEO and JKEO sites

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Tomita, Hiroyuki ^a   Kubota, Masahisa ^b   Cronin, Meghan F ^c   Iwasaki, Shinsuke ^b   Konda, Masanori ^a   Ichikawa, Hiroshi ^a  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; OCEAN CURRENTS; REMOTE SENSING;

AIR SEA FLUX; AIR SEA INTERACTIONS; AIR-SEA HEAT FLUX; COMPARISON RESULT; DATA SETS; GLOBAL OCEAN; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; JAMSTEC; KUROSHIO EXTENSION; NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCHES; NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTIONS; NET HEAT FLUX; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; OCEAN ATMOSPHERE; REANALYSIS; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; STATE VARIABLES; SURFACE HEAT FLUXES; SURFACE MOORING; TURBULENT HEAT FLUXES;

HEAT FLUX;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; DATA SET; GLOBAL OCEAN; HEAT FLUX; MOORING SYSTEM; SEASONALITY; TURBULENT FLOW; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 77953547633     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JC005545     Document Type: Article

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