Two types of surface wind response to the east china sea kuroshio front

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 8616-8627

  Liu, Jing Wu ^a   Zhang, Su Ping ^a   Xie, Shang Ping ^a,b,c  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Air sea interaction; Fronts; Marine boundary layer; North Pacific Ocean; Sea surface temperature

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COASTAL ZONES; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MIXING; OCEAN CURRENTS; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; TIME MEASUREMENT; WIND;

AIR SEA INTERACTIONS; FRONTS; MARINE BOUNDARY LAYERS; NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC FRONT; BAROCLINIC MOTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATOLOGY; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; SCATTEROMETER; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURFACE WIND; VERTICAL MIXING; WIND SHEAR; WIND VELOCITY;

EAST CHINA SEA; KUROSHIO CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84886261920     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00092.1     Document Type: Article

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