High-resolution satellite surface latent heat fluxes in North Atlantic hurricanes

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 139, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2735-2747

  Liu, Jiping ^a   Curry, Judith A ^a   Clayson, Carol Anne ^b   Bourassa, Mark A ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Air sea interaction; Fluxes; Hurricanes; North Atlantic Ocean; Satellite observations

Indexed keywords

AIR SEA INTERACTIONS; BULK FLUX ALGORITHM; COMPARISON WITH MEASUREMENTS; COUPLED BOUNDARY LAYER AIR-SEA TRANSFERS; DATA SETS; FIELD EXPERIMENT; FLUX PRODUCT; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH WINDS; NEW SATELLITES; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; OCEAN SURFACES; REANALYSIS; RETRIEVAL METHODS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SEA SPRAY; SURFACE LATENT HEAT FLUXES;

COASTAL ZONES; FLUXES; HEAT FLUX; HURRICANES; LATENT HEAT; SATELLITES; WATER CONTENT; WATER WAVES; WEATHER FORECASTING;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ALGORITHM; BOUNDARY LAYER; DATA SET; HURRICANE; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LATENT HEAT FLUX; OCEAN WAVE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 80053217765     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011MWR3548.1     Document Type: Article

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