Abstract: Nomograms of mean column heating, due to surface sensible and latent heat fluxes, have been developed from Stage and Businger's (1981a,b) boundary-layer model for cold air outbreaks over warm water. Mean sensible heating ...

Abstract: Airborne measurements of atmospheric turbulence spectra and cospectra made at the 50 m level above the western Atlantic Ocean during cold air outbreaks have been studied. The data cover nearshore areas of cloud streets or ...

Abstract: In the case of cold air outbreaks, the combination of the coastal shape and the sea surface temperature (SST) pattern is shown to have a profound effect in establishing a low level mesoscale atmospheric circulation as a ...

Abstract: The structure and kinetic energy budget of turbulence in the convective marine atmospheric boundary layer as observed by aircraft during a cold air outbreak have been studied using mixed layer scaling. The results are ...

Abstract: The combination of vertical lidar and in situ meteorological observations from two aircraft provide an unprecedented view of the marine atmospheric boundary layer (MABL) during a cold air outbreak. To a first approximation, ...

Abstract: The ocean surface latent heat flux (LHF) plays an essential role in global energy and water cycle variability. In this study, monthly LHF over global oceans during 1992?93 are compared among Goddard Satellite-Based Surface ...

Abstract: The daily mean heat and momentum fluxes at the surface derived from the Special Sensor Microwave/Imager and Japan?s Geostationary Meteorological Satellite radiance measurements are used to study the temporal and spatial ...

Abstract: In the first part of the paper, a high space?time resolution (1° latitude/longitude and daily) dataset of the turbulent fluxes at the ocean surface is used to estimate and study the seasonal to annual near-global maps of ...

Abstract: Information on the turbulent fluxes of momentum, latent heat, and sensible heat at the air?sea interface is essential in improving model simulations of climate variations and in climate studies. A 13.5-yr (July 1987?December ...

Abstract: Seasonal to interannual variations of the net surface heating (FNET) and its relationship to sea surface temperature tendency (dTs/dt) in the tropical eastern Indian and western Pacific Oceans are studied for the period ...