A comparison of atmospheric reanalysis surface products over the ocean and implications for uncertainties in air-sea boundary forcing

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 153-170

  Chaudhuri, Ayan H ^a   Ponte, Rui M ^a   Forget, Gael ^b   Heimbach, Patrick ^b  

^a ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC FIELDS; ATMOSPHERIC REANALYSIS; AVERAGE FIELD; BOUNDARY FORCING; DOWN-WELLING; DOWN-WELLING RADIATION; ECMWF RE-ANALYSIS; INTERANNUAL; LONG WAVES; MERIDIONAL WINDS; MULTIPLE PRODUCTS; OCEAN MODEL; OPTIMIZATION PROCEDURES; PHYSICAL ASSUMPTIONS; REANALYSIS; REANALYSIS PROJECT; SATELLITE-DERIVED OBSERVATIONS; SHORT-WAVE RADIATION; SINGLE PRODUCT; SPECIFIC HUMIDITY; STRESS FIELD; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; SURFACE PRODUCTS;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; OCEANOGRAPHY; OPTIMIZATION;

ERRORS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; DOWNWELLING; ERROR ANALYSIS; LONGWAVE RADIATION; OPTIMIZATION; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84872901343     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00090.1     Document Type: Article

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