The temporal autocorrelation structure of sea surface winds

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 6684-6700

  Monahan, Adam H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Time series; Wind

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION FUNCTIONS; AUTOCORRELATION STRUCTURES; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; DECORRELATIONS; EDDY MODEL; EQUATORIAL WAVES; EXTRATROPICAL; GAUSSIANS; LOW LATITUDES; MERIDIONAL WINDS; MIDLATITUDES; MODEL RESULTS; NON-GAUSSIAN; REANALYSIS; SCATTEROMETERS; SEA SURFACE WIND; SEA SURFACES; SMALL-SCALE CONVECTION; STANDARD DEVIATION; STORM TRACK; VECTOR WIND; WIND ANOMALIES; WIND DATA; WIND SPEED; ZONAL WIND;

ANISOTROPY; AUTOCORRELATION; CLIMATOLOGY; KINEMATICS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES; WIND; WIND EFFECTS;

VECTORS;

AUTOCORRELATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; SEA SURFACE; STORM TRACK; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WIND VELOCITY; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 84867686855     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00698.1     Document Type: Article

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