Moored surface buoy observations of the diurnal warm layer

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 118, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 4553-4569

  Prytherch, J ^a   Farrar, J T ^b   Weller, R A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

diurnal warm layer; upper ocean dynamics

Indexed keywords

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); DYNAMICS; INFRARED RADIATION; TROPICS;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT; DIURNAL WARM LAYER; DIURNAL WARMING; HIGH RESOLUTION; MODEL PERFORMANCE; SUBSURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; UPPER OCEAN;

SHEAR FLOW;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; BUOY SYSTEM; DATA SET; DIURNAL VARIATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; INFRARED RADIATION; METEOROLOGY; MOORING SYSTEM; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SOLAR RADIATION; SUBTROPICAL REGION; UPPER OCEAN;

EID: 84887091282     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrc.20360     Document Type: Article

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