Uncertainties in estimates of surface heat fluxes derived from marine reports over the tropical and subtropical oceans

Bryan C. Weare

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v41i4.11846

Uncertainties in estimates of surface heat fluxes derived from marine reports over the tropical and subtropical oceans

Tellus

Volume 41 (1989): Issue 4

By: Bryan C. Weare

Open Access

|Jan 1989

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