Air-Sea fluxes from ICOADS: The construction of a new gridded dataset with uncertainty estimates

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 987-1001

  Berry, David I ^a   Kent, Elizabeth C ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Air sea interaction; Flux; ICOADS; Marine meteorology; Ocean; Ship; VOS

Indexed keywords

AIR SEA INTERACTIONS; ICOADS; MARINE METEOROLOGY; OCEAN; VOS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ESTIMATION; METEOROLOGY; REACTOR CORES; SHIPS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; AUTOCORRELATION; DATA SET; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; PARAMETERIZATION; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 79957504333     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.2059     Document Type: Article

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