Diagnostics for near-surface wind convergence/divergence response to the Gulf Stream in a regional atmospheric model

Atmospheric Science Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 16-21

  Takatama, Kohei ^a   Minobe, Shoshiro ^a   Inatsu, Masaru ^a   Small, R Justin ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Air sea interaction; Regional atmospheric model; SST fronts; The Gulf Stream

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CONVERGENCE; MOMENTUM TRANSFER; OCEANIC FRONT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF STREAM;

EID: 84856004352     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1530261X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asl.355     Document Type: Article

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