Prediction of the diurnal warming of sea surface temperature using an atmosphere-ocean mixed layer coupled model

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Noh, Yign ^a   Lee, Eunjeong ^a   Kim, Dong Hoon ^a   Hong, Song You ^a   Kim, Mee Ja ^b   Ou, Mi Lim ^b  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^b Meteorological Research Institute   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE CONTROL; TIME SERIES;

ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; BUOY DATA; COUPLED MODELS; DIURNAL VARIABILITY; DIURNAL VARIATION; DIURNAL WARMING; MIXED LAYER; MIXED-LAYER MODELS; MODEL OUTPUTS; MODEL PERFORMANCE; MODEL RESULTS; NEAR-SURFACE; SATELLITE DATA; SCATTER PLOTS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SEA SURFACES; STRONG WINDS; TEMPERATURE PROFILES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; DIURNAL VARIATION; GLOBAL WARMING; MIXED LAYER; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; THERMOCLINE;

EID: 81755161224     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JC006970     Document Type: Article

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