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RISSurface Solar Irradiance in the Central Pacific during Tropic Heat: Comparisons between in Situ Measurements and Satellite Estimates
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: We present the first results concerning solar radiation at the ocean surface during the Tropic Heat experiment. Using calibrated GOES visible brightness measurements, a simple radiative transfer model calculates hourly and ...
Mesoscale Insolation Variability Derived from Satellite Data
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A simple radiative model designed to estimate insolation from geostationary satellite data has been applied to GOES-East calibrated visible data. Insolation results for 90 days are presented and compared with pyranometer ...
Some Evidence of Cool Surface Water Pools Associated with Mesoscale Downdrafts during GATE
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A pool of cool surface water was observed on 15 July 1974 during the GATE experiment, where down-drafts were present inside the cloud cluster. Downdrafts are assumed to destroy the buoyant moist plume convection that ...
Evolution of the Net Surface Shortwave Radiation over the Indian Ocean during Summer MONEX (1979): A Satellite Description
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: In this paper we briefly describe the method applied to derive the net shortwave radiation (NSW) at the surface from combinations of calibrated visible geostationary satellite data. We then discuss the anticipated accuracy ...
Surface Solar Radiation Flux and Cloud Radiative Forcing for the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Southern Great Plains (SGP): A Satellite, Surface Observations, and Radiative Transfer Model Study
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: This study presents surface solar radiation flux and cloud radiative forcing results obtained by using a combination of satellite and surface observations interpreted by means of a simple plane-parallel radiative transfer ...
Estimates of Heat Content Variations from Sea Level Measurements in the Central and Western Tropical Pacific from 1979 to 1985
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A method is developed to estimate oceanic heat content (0?300 m) variations from sea level measurements in the tropical Pacific. To this end, statistical relationships between heat content and steric level, used as a ...
Interaction between Net Shortwave Flux and Sea Surface Temperature
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Ocean surface shortwave irradiance estimates, From GOES satellite data computed using the model of Gautier and Frouin (1985), are compared to in situ measurements from research vessels and buoys during the frontal air-sea ...
Net Surface Solar Irradiance Variability in the Central Equatorial Pacific during 1982–1985
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: This paper examines the evolution of the net surface solar irradiance from March 1982 to October 1985 in an important region of the equatorial Pacific where the TROPIC HEAT Experiment took place (4.6°N to 7.4°S, 142.6° to ...
Comparison between Global Latent Heat Flux Computed from Multisensor (SSM/I and AVHRR) and from In Situ Data
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The accurate estimate of the latent heat flux (LHF) is important to understand better the coupling between the atmosphere and the ocean and their respective circulation. In the near future, the availability of satellite-derived ...
Improvements to a Simple Physical Model for Estimating Insolation from GOES Data
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The simple physical model to estimate surface insolation from GOES data (described in Gautier et al., 1980) has been improved through some modifications to existing physics (Rayleigh scattering and water vapor absorption), ...