A surface mooring for air-sea interaction research in the gulf stream. Part II: Analysis of the observations and their accuracies

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 450-469

  Bigorre, Sébastien P ^a   Weller, Robert A ^a   Edson, James B ^b   Ware, Jonathan D ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmosphere ocean interaction; Buoy observations

Indexed keywords

AIR SEA INTERACTIONS; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS; BUOY OBSERVATIONS; CALIBRATION ERROR; COUPLED OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE RESPONSE EXPERIMENTS; OCEANOGRAPHIC MEASUREMENTS; REDUNDANT SENSORS; SENSOR ELECTRONICS;

CALIBRATION; MOORING; OCEAN CURRENTS; WIND EFFECTS;

SENSORS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA BUOY; ERROR ANALYSIS; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RESEARCH WORK; SHIPBORNE MEASUREMENT; TOGA-COARE; WIND VELOCITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF STREAM;

EID: 84875673712     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: 15200426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JTECH-D-12-00078.1     Document Type: Article

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