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contributor authorKubota, Masahisa
contributor authorKano, Atsuko
contributor authorMuramatsu, Hidenori
contributor authorTomita, Hiroyuki
date accessioned2017-06-09T16:10:00Z
date available2017-06-09T16:10:00Z
date copyright2003/02/01
date issued2003
identifier issn0894-8755
identifier otherams-6242.pdf
identifier urihttp://onlinelibrary.yabesh.ir/handle/yetl/4203312
description abstractThe Japanese Ocean Flux Data Sets with use of Remote Sensing Observations (J-OFURO) latent heat flux field is compared with the Hamburg Ocean?Atmosphere Parameters and Fluxes from Satellite Data (HOAPS), the Goddard Satellite-Based Surface Turbulent Fluxes (GSSTF), ECMWF, NCEP?NCAR reanalysis (NCEP1), and da Silva et al.'s fields. All products qualitatively reveal a similar pattern in the average fields. Although the latent heat fluxes of J-OFURO and GSSTF are quite similar, they are larger than those of HOAPS in the tropical regions. The difference between J-OFURO and the da Silva data is large, and the temporal correlation is extremely low in the Southern Hemisphere. This suggests that the da Silva product hardly reproduces accurate variability in the data-sparse regions. Also the time correlation between J-OFURO and ECMWF or NCEP1 is considerably lower in the Southern Hemisphere than in the Northern Hemisphere. The ECMWF and NCEP1 fields may be affected by the lack of ship observations there. The present study also compares meridional profiles of the zonal average. The HOAPS and da Silva products significantly underestimate these profiles in the tropical regions compared with the other products. On the other hand, the ECMWF product overestimates these profiles in the equatorial regions.
publisherAmerican Meteorological Society
titleIntercomparison of Various Surface Latent Heat Flux Fields
typeJournal Paper
journal volume16
journal issue4
journal titleJournal of Climate
identifier doi10.1175/1520-0442(2003)016<0670:IOVSLH>2.0.CO;2
journal fristpage670
journal lastpage678
treeJournal of Climate:;2003:;volume( 016 ):;issue: 004
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