Investigating the role of ocean-atmosphere coupling in the North Pacific ocean

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 592-606

  Smirnov, Dimitry ^a,b   Newman, Matthew ^a,b   Alexander, Michael A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR SEA INTERACTIONS; AIR TEMPERATURE; AUTO REGRESSIVE MODELS; CONTROL SIMULATION; FULLY-COUPLED; NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; OCEAN CURRENTS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

AIR TEMPERATURE; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA SET; MODEL VALIDATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; ZONAL WIND;

KUROSHIO EXTENSION; OYASHIO CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84892525420     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00123.1     Document Type: Article

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