Diurnal cycling of sea surface temperature, salinity, and current in the CESM coupled climate model

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 120, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 3711-3729

  Large, W G ^a   Caron, J M ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

diurnal cycling

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; DIURNAL VARIATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL WARMING; HEAT FLUX; RICHARDSON NUMBER; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EID: 85027927217     PISSN: 21699275     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014JC010691     Document Type: Article

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