Probability distribution characteristics for surface air-sea turbulent heat fluxes over the global ocean

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 184-206

  Gulev, Sergey K ^a,b   Belyaev, Konstantin ^a,c  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Currents; Heat budgets; Ocean dynamics; Surface fluxes; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

DECADAL TIMESCALE; DISTRIBUTION CHARACTERISTICS; GLOBAL OCEAN; HEAT BUDGET; INTERANNUAL; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; KUROSHIO EXTENSION; LOCATION AND SCALE PARAMETERS; OCEAN DYNAMICS; PROBABILITY DENSITY DISTRIBUTION; REANALYSIS; SAMPLING ERRORS; SEASONAL CYCLE; SOUTHERN OCEAN; STATE VARIABLES; SURFACE FLUX; SURFACE FLUXES; SURFACE TURBULENT FLUXES; SYSTEMATIC EFFECTS; TURBULENT FLUX; TURBULENT HEAT FLUXES; VOLUNTARY OBSERVING SHIPS; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENTS;

CLIMATOLOGY; OCEAN CURRENTS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; TURBULENCE;

HEAT FLUX;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATOLOGY; HEAT BUDGET; HEAT FLUX; LATENT HEAT FLUX; PARAMETERIZATION; PROBABILITY; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; TURBULENT MIXING;

KUROSHIO EXTENSION; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84856957194     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JCLI4211.1     Document Type: Article

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