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RISAn Estimate of Structural Uncertainty in QuikSCAT Wind Vector Retrievals
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: ifferences between Quick Scatterometer (QuikSCAT) level-2b wind vectors from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory [JPL; the Direction Interval Retrieval with Thresholded Nudging (DIRTH) product] and from the Remote Sensing Systems ...
Toward Estimating Climatic Trends in SST. Part III: Systematic Biases
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A method is developed to quantify systematic errors in two types of sea surface temperature (SST) observations: bucket and engine-intake measurements. A simple linear model is proposed where the SST measured using a bucket ...
A New Air–Sea Interaction Gridded Dataset from ICOADS With Uncertainty Estimates
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The exchange, or flux, of heat between the oceans and atmosphere is an important driver of the global oceanic and atmospheric circulations but remains poorly quantified. Direct measurement of heat flux remains a research ...
A Comparison of Sensible and Latent Heat Flux Estimates for the North Atlantic Ocean
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Previously published estimates of the surface turbulent fluxes over the North Atlantic Ocean have been compared by applying the calculation methods used by each author to a common dataset of ship observations. The major ...
Accuracy of Humidity Measurement on Ships: Consideration of Solar Radiation Effects
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The effect of heating due to solar radiation on measurements of humidity obtained from ships is examined. Variations in wet- and dry-bulb temperature measured on each side of a research ship are shown to correlate with ...
Toward Estimating Climatic Trends in SST. Part I: Methods of Measurement
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: To assess climatic changes in sea surface temperature (SST), changes in the measurement method with time and the effect of these changes on the mean SST must be quantified. Observations from the International Comprehensive ...
Toward Estimating Climatic Trends in SST. Part II: Random Errors
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Random observational errors for sea surface temperature (SST) are estimated using merchant ship reports from the International Comprehensive Ocean?Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS) for the period of 1970?97. A statistical ...
Choice of a Beaufort Equivalent Scale
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Beaufort equivalent scales from the literature have been compared to find the scale that gives the most homogenous, internally consistent, combined anemometer and visual wind speed data from the Comprehensive Ocean?Atmosphere ...
Quantifying Daytime Heating Biases in Marine Air Temperature Observations from Ships
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
An Analytical Model of Heating Errors in Marine Air Temperatures from Ships
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Marine air temperature reports from ships can contain significant biases due to the solar heating of the instruments and their surroundings. However, there have been very few attempts to derive corrections. The biases can ...