A comparison of southern ocean air-sea buoyancy flux from an ocean state estimate with five other products

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 6283-6306

  Cerovečki, Ivana ^a   Talley, Lynne D ^a   Mazloff, Matthew R ^a  

^a San Diego   (United States)

Author keywords

Air sea interaction; Buoyancy; Fluxes; Model comparison; Southern Ocean

Indexed keywords

AIR SEA FLUX; AIR SEA INTERACTIONS; AIR-SEA HEAT FLUX; ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENTS; ATMOSPHERIC FIELDS; ATMOSPHERIC VARIABLES; BUOYANCY FLUXES; COUPLED OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE RESPONSE EXPERIMENTS; ECMWF RE-ANALYSIS; FLUX PRODUCT; HIGH LATITUDES; INDIAN OCEAN; INITIAL GUESS; INPUT VARIABLES; MESOSCALE ACTIVITY; MODEL COMPARISON; NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTIONS; OCEAN HEAT; OCEAN STATE; POLAR LATITUDE; RADIATIVE FLUXES; RADIATIVE HEAT FLUXES; REANALYSIS; SOUTHERN OCEAN; SURFACE BUOYANCY FLUX; SURFACE FLUX; TURBULENT FLUX; TURBULENT HEAT FLUXES; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENTS; WORKING GROUPS;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BUOYANCY; ESTIMATION; FLUXES; HEAT FLUX; HEAT LOSSES; STATE ESTIMATION;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BUOYANCY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESTIMATION METHOD; HEAT FLUX; SEA STATE; TURBULENT FLOW; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84155179098     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JCLI3858.1     Document Type: Article

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