Estimation of the Heat and Water Budgets of the Persian (Arabian) Gulf Using a Regional Climate Model

Because of the scarcity of observational data, existing estimates of the heat and water budgets of the Persian Gulf are rather uncertain. This uncertainty leaves open the fundamental question of whether this water body is a net heat source or a net heat sink to the atmosphere. Previous regional mode...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Xue, Pengfei, Eltahir, Elfatih A. B.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Meteorological Society 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/101105