A comparison of atmospheric reanalysis products for the Arctic Ocean and implications for uncertainties in air-sea fluxes

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 14, 2014, Pages 5411-5421

  Chaudhuri, Ayan H ^a   Ponte, Rui M ^b   Nguyen, An T ^b  

^a ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic; Atmosphere ocean interaction; Model evaluation performance; Ocean models; Reanalysis data

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; OCEANOGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

ARCTIC; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS; MODEL EVALUATION/PERFORMANCE; OCEAN MODEL; REANALYSIS;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; CLIMATE MODELING; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; RADIATIVE FORCING; SEA ICE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84904490452     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00424.1     Document Type: Article

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