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RISWind Stress Measurements from the Open Ocean
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: An automatic inertial dissipation system was used during three cruises of the RRS Discovery in the Southern Ocean to obtain a large dataset of open ocean wind stress estimates. The wind speed varied from near calm to 26 m ...
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 ...
The Dependence of Sea Surface Roughness on the Height and Steepness of the Waves
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: It is proposed that the sea surface roughness zo can be predicted from the height and steepness of the waves, zo/Hs = A(Hs/Lp)B, where Hs and Lp are the significant wave height and peak wavelength for the combined sea and ...
Comments on “On the Effect of Ocean Waves on the Kinetic Energy Balance and Consequences for the Inertial Dissipation Technique”
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
On the Apparent “Imbalance” Term in the Turbulent Kinetic Energy Budget
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A synthetic dataset is used to show that apparent variations between different stability classes in the mean drag coefficient, CD10n, to wind speed relationship can be explained by random errors in determining the friction ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Correction of Marine Air Temperature Observations for Solar Radiation Effects
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The effect of incoming solar radiation on merchant ships' observations of air temperature was assessed as part of the Voluntary Observing Ships' Special Observing Project for the North Atlantic (VSOP-NA), The ships' reports ...