Upper-ocean response to hurricane frances (2004) observed by profiling EM-APEX floats

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1041-1056

  Sanford, Thomas B ^a   Price, James F ^b   Girton, James B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Air sea interactions; Hurricanes; Ocean dynamics; Profilers

Indexed keywords

AIR SEA INTERACTIONS; COUPLED BOUNDARY LAYER AIR-SEA TRANSFERS; HIGH FIELD; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HIGH WINDS; HORIZONTAL VELOCITY; HURRICANE FRANCES; IN-SITU TEMPERATURE; INERTIAL CURRENT; INERTIAL MOTIONS; MOMENTUM BUDGET; OCEAN DYNAMICS; OCEAN MODEL; PROFILE MEASUREMENT; PROFILERS; RICHARDSON NUMBER; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT; SURFACE GRAVITY WAVES; SURFACE LAYERS; SURFACE MIXED LAYERS; VERTICAL MIXING; WIND SPEED;

COASTAL ZONES; DRAG; DRAG COEFFICIENT; GRAVITY WAVES; OCEANOGRAPHY;

HURRICANES;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; DRAG; GRAVITY WAVE; HURRICANE FRANCES 2004; MIXED LAYER; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROFILER; RICHARDSON NUMBER; SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURFACE LAYER; UPPER OCEAN; VERTICAL MIXING; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 79960344056     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JPO4313.1     Document Type: Article

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