Winter atmospheric buoyancy forcing and oceanic response during strong wind events around southeastern Greenland in the Regional Arctic System Model (RASM) for 1990-2010

Journal of Climate

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 975-994

  DuVivier, Alice K ^a,b   Cassano, John J ^a,b   Craig, Anthony ^c   Hamman, Joseph ^d   Maslowski, Wieslaw ^c   Nijssen, Bart ^d   Osinski, Robert ^c,e   Roberts, Andrew ^c  

^a University of Colorado Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^d University of Washington   (United States)

^e INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Arctic; Atm Ocean Structure Phenomena; Atmosphere ocean interaction; Circulation Dynamics; Coupled models; Geographic location entity; Models and modeling; Oceanic mixed layer; Regional models; Wind

Indexed keywords

AIR; BUOYANCY; CLIMATE MODELS; CONFORMAL MAPPING; OCEANOGRAPHY; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS; TRAINING AIRCRAFT; WIND;

ARCTIC; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS; COUPLED MODELS; GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION; OCEANIC MIXED LAYERS; REGIONAL MODEL;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; BUOYANCY FORCING; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; LATENT HEAT FLUX; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER; WIND FIELD; WINTER;

ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; GREENLAND; IRMINGER SEA; LABRADOR SEA;

EID: 84957812825     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0592.1     Document Type: Article

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