TropFlux: Air-sea fluxes for the global tropical oceans-description and evaluation

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 38, Issue 7-8, 2012, Pages 1521-1543

  Kumar, B Praveen ^a   Vialard, J ^a,b   Lengaigne, M ^a,b   Murty, V S N ^a   McPhaden, M J ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (India)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ALGORITHM; CLIMATE VARIATION; HEAT BUDGET; HEAT FLUX; LONGWAVE RADIATION; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; TURBULENT FLOW; WIND VELOCITY;

INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST);

EID: 84856951173     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-011-1115-0     Document Type: Article

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