TropFlux wind stresses over the tropical oceans: Evaluation and comparison with other products

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 40, Issue 7-8, 2013, Pages 2049-2071

  Praveen Kumar, B ^a   Vialard, J ^b   Lengaigne, M ^a,b   Murty, V S N ^a   McPhaden, M J ^c   Cronin, M F ^c   Pinsard, F ^b   Gopala Reddy, K ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (India)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c NOAA PACIFIC MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d ANDHRA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Air sea momentum fluxes; TropFlux; Tropics; Wind stress products validation

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANNUAL VARIATION; HEAT FLUX; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; QUIKSCAT; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SEASONAL VARIATION; TIMESCALE; WIND STRESS; ZONAL WIND;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 84875730077     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-012-1455-4     Document Type: Article

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