Assessment of sea surface wind from NWP reanalyses and satellites in the Southern Ocean

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1842-1853

  Li, Ming ^a   Liu, Jiping ^b   Wang, Zhenzhan ^c   Wang, Hui ^a   Zhang, Zhanhai ^d   Zhang, Lin ^a   Yang, Qinghua ^a  

^a Key Laboratory of Research on Marine Hazards Forecasting   (China)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c CENTER FOR SPACE SCIENCE AND APPLIED RESEARCH   (China)

^d POLAR RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENTS; CIRCUMPOLAR REGIONS; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; NATIONAL CLIMATE DATA CENTERS; REANALYSIS PROJECT; SEA-SURFACE WIND SPEED;

OCEAN CURRENTS; SHIPS; SURFACE WATERS; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND EFFECTS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ANNUAL VARIATION; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE; SHIPBORNE MEASUREMENT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WIND FIELD; WIND VELOCITY;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84883754311     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: 15200426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JTECH-D-12-00240.1     Document Type: Article

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