Global analysis of the pressure adjustment mechanism over sea surface temperature fronts using AIRS/Aqua data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Shimada, Teruhisa ^a   Minobe, Shoshiro ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; OCEAN CURRENTS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TROPOSPHERE;

ADJUSTMENT MECHANISMS; AIR SEA INTERACTIONS; AIR TEMPERATURE; GLOBAL ANALYSIS; GLOBAL OBSERVATION; GULF STREAM; KUROSHIO; LAPLACIANS; MARINE ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; MIDLATITUDES; RETURN CURRENT; SATELLITE SOUNDINGS; SCATTEROMETERS; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE FRONTS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SURFACE WINDS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BOUNDARY LAYER; CONVERGENCE; GLOBAL CHANGE; LATITUDE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SCATTEROMETER; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPOSPHERE;

AGULHAS CURRENT; INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 79953666499     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL046625     Document Type: Article

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