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RISThe Global Distribution of the Time-Average Wind Stress Curl from NSCAT
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The time-average wind stress curl field for the global ocean is computed from the wind retrievals of the NASA Scatterometer (NSCAT) mission spanning the period 1 October 1996?29 June 1997. Particular attention is paid to ...
The Existence and Vertical Structure of Fast, Eastward-Moving Disturbances in the Equatorial Troposphere
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Eastward phase propagation, at speed faster than 30 m s?1, of a signal in the equatorial troposphere of the Eastern Pacific is detected, first in historical meteorological observations and then in more recent data. A first ...
Structure and Dynamics of the Rhodes Gyre System and Dynamical Interpolation for Estimates of the Mesoscale Variability
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A coastal quasigeostrophic (QG) methodology is extended in an exploration of the mesoscale variability of the Rhodes Gyre region of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, given multiscale data taken as part of the POEM program. ...
QuikSCAT Impacts on Coastal Forecasts and Warnings: Operational Utility of Satellite Ocean Surface Vector Wind Data
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: This study reports on the operational utility of ocean surface vector wind (SVW) data from Quick Scatterometer (QuikSCAT) observations in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Weather Service ...
Stochastic Forcing of Ocean Variability by the North Atlantic Oscillation
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: At middle and high latitudes, the magnitude of stochastic wind stress forcing of the ocean by atmospheric variability on synoptic time scales (i.e., ?weather? related variability) is comparable to that of the seasonal ...
Hierarchical Bayesian Approach to Boundary Value Problems with Stochastic Boundary Conditions
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Boundary value problems are ubiquitous in the atmospheric and ocean sciences. Typical settings include bounded, partially bounded, global, and limited area domains, discretized for applications of numerical models of the ...
Basin-Scale, High-Wavenumber Sea Surface Wind Fields from a Multiresolution Analysis of Scatterometer Data
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A numerical technique sensitive to both spectral and spatial aspects of sea surface wind measurements is introduced to transform the irregularly sampled satellite-based scatterometer data into regularly gridded wind fields. ...
Surface Wind Variability on Spatial Scales from 1 to 1000 km Observed during TOGA COARE
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Near-surface wind spectra are considered from three very different data sources, covering a range of spatial scales from 100 to 103 km. The data were observed during the Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere Coupled Ocean?Atmosphere ...
The General Circulation Responses of High-Resolution North Atlantic Ocean Models to Synthetic Scatterometer Winds
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: High-resolution (1/5°?1/6°) quasigeostrophic models of the North Atlantic Ocean are forced by daily wind stress curl fields of controlled wavenumber content. In the low-wavenumber case, the wind stress curl is derived from ...
Wind Stress Curl and Wind Stress Divergence Biases from Rain Effects on QSCAT Surface Wind Retrievals
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Surface vector wind datasets from scatterometers provide essential high-resolution surface forcing information for analyses and models of global atmosphere?ocean processes affecting weather and climate. The importance of ...