Seasonal variations between sampling and classical mean turbulent heat flux estimates in the eastern North Atlantic

The two commonly used statistical measures of the air-sea heat flux, the sampling and classical means, have been compared using hourly reports over a 7-year-period from a weather ship stationed in the NE Atlantic. The sampling mean is the average over all flux estimates in a given period, where indi...

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Main Authors: S. A. Josey, E. C. Kent, P. K. Taylor
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications
Series:Annales Geophysicae
Online Access:http://www.ann-geophys.net/13/1054/1995/angeo-13-1054-1995.html