The global characteristics of the wavenumber spectrum of ocean surface wind

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1576-1582

  Xu, Yongsheng ^a   Fu, Lee Lueng ^a   Tulloch, Ross ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; GLOBAL OCEAN; MIDLATITUDES; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; OCEAN SURFACE WINDS; QUIKSCAT; SCATTEROMETERS; SOUTH ATLANTIC; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; SPECTRAL SLOPES; THEORETICAL STUDY; TROPICAL INDIAN OCEAN; WAVELENGTH RANGES; WAVENUMBER SPECTRA;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; EQUIPMENT TESTING; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL OCEAN; KINETIC ENERGY; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SCATTEROMETER; SEA SURFACE; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM; SURFACE WIND;

EID: 80052365242     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-11-059.1     Document Type: Article

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