Ocean Mixed Layer responses to intense meteorological events during HyMeX-SOP1 from a high-resolution ocean simulation

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 84, Issue , 2014, Pages 84-103

  Lebeaupin Brossier, Cindy ^a   Arsouze, Thomas ^b   Béranger, Karine ^b   Bouin, Marie Noëlle ^c   Bresson, Emilie ^a   Ducrocq, Véronique ^a   Giordani, Hervé ^a   Nuret, Mathieu ^a   Rainaud, Romain ^a   Taupier Letage, Isabelle ^d  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^b ENSTA PARISTECH   (France)

^c Centre de Météorologie Marine CMM Météo France   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULON   (France)

Author keywords

Air sea fluxes; Extreme events; HyMeX; Ocean Mixed Layer; Western Mediterranean Sea

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MIXING; SPACE PLATFORMS;

AIR SEA FLUX; EXTREME EVENTS; HYMEX; OCEAN MIXED LAYERS; WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ADVECTION; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXTREME EVENT; METEOROLOGY; MIXED LAYER; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); WIND;

ALBORAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (WEST);

EID: 84910664052     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2014.09.009     Document Type: Article

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