Regional coupled ocean-atmosphere downscaling in the Southeast Pacific: Impacts on upwelling, mesoscale air-sea fluxes, and ocean eddies

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 463-488

  Putrasahan, Dian A ^a,b   Miller, Arthur J ^a   Seo, Hyodae ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Coupled ocean atmosphere feedbacks; Eastern boundary current; Humboldt Current; Mesoscale eddies; Peru current; Surface fluxes; VOCALS

Indexed keywords

EASTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT; HUMBOLDT CURRENT; MESOSCALE EDDY; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE; SURFACE FLUX; VOCALS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; STRESS CONCENTRATION; WIND STRESS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; DOWNSCALING; EDDY COVARIANCE; EKMAN PUMPING; FLUX MEASUREMENT; HEAT FLUX; MAGNITUDE; PREDICTION; QUIKSCAT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; UPWELLING; WIND VELOCITY;

HUMBOLDT CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84877794669     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: 16167228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-013-0608-2     Document Type: Article

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