Coupled ocean-atmosphere offshore decay scale of cold SST signals along upwelling eastern boundaries

Journal of Climate

Volumn 29, Issue 23, 2016, Pages 8317-8331

  Spall, Michael A ^a   Schneider, Niklas ^b  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Coastal flows; Ekman pumping transport; Ocean dynamics

Indexed keywords

AIR; ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; HEAT FLUX; SURFACE WATERS;

BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY; BOUNDARY LAYER TEMPERATURE; COASTAL FLOW; EKMAN PUMPING/TRANSPORT; OCEAN DYNAMICS; OCEANIC MIXED LAYERS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); WIND DRIVEN UPWELLING;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; BOUNDARY LAYER; EKMAN PUMPING; EKMAN TRANSPORT; MIXED LAYER; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; UPWELLING; WIND-DRIVEN CIRCULATION;

EID: 84996867981     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0109.1     Document Type: Article

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