Net air-sea surface heat flux during 1984-2004 over the North Pacific and North Atlantic oceans (10°N-50°N): Annual mean climatology and trend

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 104, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 387-401

  Li, Gen ^a   Ren, Baohua ^a   Zheng, Jianqiu ^a   Yang, Chengyun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATOLOGY; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GLOBAL WARMING; LATENT HEAT FLUX; OCEAN BASIN; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TREND ANALYSIS; TURBULENT FLOW; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); GULF STREAM; JAPAN; KUROSHIO EXTENSION; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN (SUBTROPICAL);

EID: 79957503690     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-010-0351-2     Document Type: Article

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