Air-sea interactions from westerly wind bursts during the november 2011 MJO in the Indian Ocean

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 95, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1185-1199

  Moum, James N ^a   De Szoeke, Simon P ^a   Smyth, William D ^a   Edson, James B ^b   DeWitt, H Langley ^c   Moulin, Aurélie J ^a   Thompson, Elizabeth J ^d   Zappa, Christopher J ^e   Rutledge, Steven A ^d   Johnson, Richard H ^d   Fairall, Christopher W ^f  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c NOAA PACIFIC MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^e Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^f NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; EARTH (PLANET); MIXING; SHIPS; SURFACE WATERS; WIND STRESS;

AIR SEA INTERACTIONS; CLIMATE SYSTEM; INTRA-SEASONAL; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MEASUREMENT PROGRAMS; PHYSICAL PROCESS; RESEARCH VESSELS; WESTERLY WIND BURSTS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 84904916248     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: 15200477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00225.1     Document Type: Article

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