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contributor authorFlament, P.
contributor authorSawyer, M.
date accessioned2017-06-09T14:51:21Z
date available2017-06-09T14:51:21Z
date copyright1995/03/01
date issued1995
identifier issn0022-3670
identifier otherams-28269.pdf
identifier urihttp://onlinelibrary.yabesh.ir/handle/yetl/4165366
description abstractThe thermohaline response of the ocean to a short (10 h) but intense (95 mm) nighttime rainfall event was observed during a transit through the ITCZ. Two CTD profiles and shipboard measurements of air?sea fluxes were consistent with the assumption that rain temperature equals the wet-bulb temperature, within measurement errors. Although the net freshwater input and the net heat loss inferred from the T?S characteristics of the surface layer were ?30% smaller than those obtained by integrating the measured air?sea fluxes, owing to different spatial sampling, inherent limitations of rain measurement from ship, and contamination by internal waves, the two independent estimates of the net heat deficit agreed remarkably well, within 2.4%, when expressed per unit mass of rain (?72kj kg?1). The heat flux due to the temperature of the rain accounted for about 40% of the net heat flux during rain, and therefore cannot be neglected.
publisherAmerican Meteorological Society
titleObservations of the Effect of Rain Temperature on the Surface Heat Flux in the Intertropical Convergence Zone
typeJournal Paper
journal volume25
journal issue3
journal titleJournal of Physical Oceanography
identifier doi10.1175/1520-0485(1995)025<0413:OOTEOR>2.0.CO;2
journal fristpage413
journal lastpage419
treeJournal of Physical Oceanography:;1995:;Volume( 025 ):;issue: 003
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