Unexpected impacts of the Tropical Pacific array on reanalysis surface meteorology and heat fluxes

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 17, 2014, Pages 6213-6220

  Josey, S A ^a   Yu, L ^b   Gulev, S ^c   Jin, X ^b   Tilinina, N ^c   Barnier, B ^d   Brodeau, L ^e  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^e STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CLIMATE MODELS; MOORING; OCEANOGRAPHY; TROPICS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AIR-SEA HEAT FLUX; ATMOSPHERIC REANALYSIS; CLIMATE STUDIES; NEAR SURFACES; OBSERVING SYSTEMS; OCEAN HEAT UPTAKE; REFERENCE SITES; TROPICAL PACIFIC OCEAN;

HEAT FLUX;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ARRAY; DATA ASSIMILATION; HEAT FLUX; NUMERICAL MODEL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84907921186     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL061302     Document Type: Article

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