Abstract: he authors' modeling shows that changes in sea surface temperature (SST) gradients and surface roughness between oil-free water and oil slicks influence the motion of the slick. Physically significant changes occur in ...

Abstract: omposite analysis from NCEP?NCAR reanalysis datasets over the period 1948?2007 indicates that stronger East Asian winter monsoons (EAWM) and stronger Australian summer monsoons (ASM) generally coexist in boreal winters ...

Abstract: A more versatile and robust technique is developed for determining area-averaged surface vorticity based on vector winds from swaths of remotely sensed wind vectors. This technique could also be applied to determine the ...

Abstract: ropical cyclogenesis in the eastern North Pacific (EPAC) basin is related to gap-wind-induced surface relative vorticity, the monsoon trough, and the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ). There are several gaps in the ...

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Abstract: A method for early detection of the systems that become tropical cyclones (TCs) in the Atlantic hurricanebasin is developed using the SeaWinds scatterometer aboard the QuikSCAT satellite. The method is based on finding ...

Abstract: Wind data from the SeaWinds instrument on NASA?s Quick Scatterometer (QuikSCAT) satellite are investigated to ascertain how well the surface manifestation of the Madden?Julian oscillation (MJO) can be resolved. The MJO ...

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Abstract: A simple coupled flux and sea state model is developed. It is applicable to low, moderate, and high wind speeds, with a nonarbitrary wave age. It is fully consistent with an atmospheric flux parameterization. The flux model ...

Abstract: Rain within the footprint of the SeaWinds scatterometer on the QuikSCAT satellite causes more significant errors than existed with its predecessor, the NASA scatterometer (NSCAT) on Advanced Earth Observing Satellite-I ...