A Global Climatology of Surface Wind and Wind Stress Fields from Eight Years of QuikSCAT Scatterometer Data

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  2008

• Venue

  Journal of Physical Oceanography

• Publication date

  2008-11-01

• Fields of study

  Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1175/2008JPO3881.1
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