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RISOn Sea Surface Salinity Skin Effect Induced by Evaporation and Implications for Remote Sensing of Ocean Salinity
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The existence of a cool and salty sea surface skin under evaporation was first proposed by Saunders in 1967, but few efforts have since been made to perceive the salt component of the skin layer. With two salinity missions ...
Global Variations in Oceanic Evaporation (1958–2005): The Role of the Changing Wind Speed
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Global estimates of oceanic evaporation (Evp) from 1958 to 2005 have been recently developed by the Objectively Analyzed Air?Sea Fluxes (OAFlux) project at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). The nearly 50-yr ...
Propagation of Equatorially Trapped Waves on a Sloping Thermocline
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The WKBJ method and a multiple-scale expansion technique are used to study equatorially trapped waves propagating on a zonally sloping themocline. Assuming that variations of the main thermocline depth (MTD) are slow (the ...
High-Latitude Contribution to Global Variability of Air–Sea Sensible Heat Flux
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: he study examined global variability of air?sea sensible heat flux (SHF) from 1980 to 2009 and the large-scale atmospheric and ocean circulations that gave rise to this variability. The contribution of high-latitude ...
Quantifying the Dependence of Westerly Wind Bursts on the Large-Scale Tropical Pacific SST
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The correlation between parameters characterizing observed westerly wind bursts (WWBs) in the equatorial Pacific and the large-scale SST is analyzed using singular value decomposition. The WWB parameters include the ...
Objectively Analyzed Air–Sea Heat Fluxes for the Global Ice-Free Oceans (1981–2005)
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A 25-yr (1981?2005) time series of daily latent and sensible heat fluxes over the global ice-free oceans has been produced by synthesizing surface meteorology obtained from satellite remote sensing and atmospheric model ...
Inverse Modeling of Seasonal Variations in the North Atlantic Ocean
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: An ocean general circulation model (OGCM) of the North Atlantic Ocean is fitted to the monthly averaged climatological temperatures and salinities of Levitus using the adjoint method, representing a significant step forward ...
Variational Estimation of the Wind Stress Drag Coefficient and the Oceanic Eddy Viscosity Profile
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A variational optimal control technique is used to assimilate both meteorological and oceanographic observations into an oceanic Ekman layer model. An identical twin experiment is discussed first in which the ?observations? ...
Variational Data Assimilation for Determining the Seasonal Net Surface Heat Flux Using a Tropical Pacific Ocean Model
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The authors present a study for determining the seasonal net surface heat flux over the tropical Pacific Ocean using an adjoint technique. A simple tropical ocean model with thermodynamics is chosen and the seasonal sea ...