Meteorological influences of eddy-resolving ocean assimilation around the cold tongue to the north of the Japanese islands during winter 2004/2005

Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 319-327

  Maeda, Yuko ^a   Yamamoto, Masaru ^b   Hirose, Naoki ^b  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coastal meteorology; Ocean data assimilation; Oceanic mesoscale eddies; Precipitation; SST

Indexed keywords

EID: 80055099515     PISSN: 19767633     EISSN: 19767951     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13143-011-0019-6     Document Type: Article

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