An assessment of air–sea heat fluxes from ocean and coupled reanalyses

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 983-1008

  Valdivieso, Maria ^a   Haines, Keith ^a   Balmaseda, Magdalena ^b   Chang, You Soon ^c,d   Drevillon, Marie ^e   Ferry, Nicolas ^e   Fujii, Yosuke ^f   Köhl, Armin ^g   Storto, Andrea ^h   Toyoda, Takahiro ^f   Wang, Xiaochun ⁱ   Waters, Jennifer ^j   Xue, Yan ^k   Yin, Yonghong ^l   Barnier, Bernard ^m   Hernandez, Fabrice ^e,n   Kumar, Arun ^k   Lee, Tong ^o   Masina, Simona ^h   Andrew Peterson, K ^j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Kongju National University   (South Korea)

^e MERCATOR OCÉAN   (France)

^f JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

^g UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^h CENTRO EURO MEDITERRANEO SUI CAMBIAMENTI CLIMATICI   (Italy)

ⁱ Los Angeles   (United States)

^j MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^k CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^l Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

^m CNRS   (France)

ⁿ INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^o CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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Author keywords

Assimilation fluxes; Flux comparisons with in situ buoy flux data; Flux variability; Ocean and coupled reanalyses; Surface heat fluxes

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEAT FLUX; LATENT HEAT FLUX; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SURFACE FLUX;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

ORA;

EID: 84944575542     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-015-2843-3     Document Type: Article

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