Roles of SST anomalies on the wintertime turbulent heat fluxes in the kuroshio-oyashio confluence region: Influences of warm eddies detached from the kuroshio extension

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 6551-6561

  Sugimoto, Shusaku ^a   Hanawa, Kimio ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Eddies; Fluxes; Sea surface temperature; Turbulence; Winter cool season

Indexed keywords

AIR SEA FLUX; ANTICYCLONIC EDDIES; BULK COEFFICIENTS; BULK FLUX ALGORITHM; CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA; COUPLED OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE RESPONSE EXPERIMENTS; DATA SETS; EDDIES; KUROSHIO EXTENSION; NORTH PACIFIC; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SENSIBLE AND LATENT HEAT FLUXES; SPECIFIC HUMIDITY; SST ANOMALIES; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; SURFACE WIND SPEED; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; TEMPORAL VARIANCE; TROPICAL OCEAN; TURBULENT HEAT FLUXES; WARM EDDY; WINTER CONDITIONS; WINTER/COOL SEASON;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXPERIMENTS; FLUXES; OCEAN CURRENTS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TURBULENCE; WIND EFFECTS;

HEAT FLUX;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALGORITHM; ANTICYCLONE; CONFLUENCE; EDDY; HEAT FLUX; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURFACE WIND; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW; WIND VELOCITY; WINTER;

KUROSHIO CURRENT; KUROSHIO EXTENSION; OYASHIO CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84155185295     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JCLI4023.1     Document Type: Article

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