What causes the location of the air-sea turbulent heat flux maximum over the Labrador Sea?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 3628-3635

  Moore, G W K ^a   Pickart, R S ^b   Renfrew, I A ^c   Våge, Kjetil ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^d BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

air sea interaction; extratropical cyclones; flow distortion; oceanic convection; polar meterorology

Indexed keywords

AIR; STORMS;

AIR SEA INTERACTIONS; AIR-SEA HEAT FLUX; ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; EXTRATROPICAL CYCLONES; FLOW DISTORTION; POLAR METEROROLOGY; TURBULENT HEAT FLUXES;

HEAT FLUX;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; BUOYANCY; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; HEAT FLUX; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; POLAR METEOROLOGY; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; TURBULENT FLOW;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; LABRADOR SEA;

EID: 84900932327     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL059940     Document Type: Article

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