Thermotidal and land-heating forcing of the diurnal cycle of oceanic surface winds in the eastern tropical Pacific

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Takahashi, Ken ^a  

^a INSTITUTO GEOFÍSICO DEL PERÚ   (Peru)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; COLUMN STABILITY; DIURNAL CYCLE; EASTERN PACIFIC; EASTERN TROPICAL PACIFIC; NEAR-IR; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; SEA-BREEZE; SURFACE WINDS; THERMAL TIDE;

EXPERIMENTS;

ABSORBANCE; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; DIURNAL VARIATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HEATING; INFRARED RADIATION; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADIATIVE FORCING; SEA BREEZE; SEA SURFACE; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; SURFACE WIND; TIDE; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; WATER VAPOR; WIND FORCING;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84863272004     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL050692     Document Type: Article

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