Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology: Recent submissions
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Inertial-Convective Subrange Estimates of Thermal Variance Dissipation Rate from Moored Temperature Measurements
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)A procedure for estimating thermal variance dissipation rate ?T by scaling the inertial-convective subrange of temperature gradient spectra from thermistor measurements on a Tropical Atmosphere Ocean (TAO) equatorial ... -
Temperature Measurements from Surface Drifters
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)The accuracy of temperature measurements from drifters is first examined for 16 drifters (manufactured either by Metocean Data Systems or by Pacific Gyre) deployed with two temperature sensors in the tropical or North ... -
Analysis of Bottom-Track and Compass Error in a Self-Contained Acoustic Doppler Diver Navigation Console
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)The Cobra-Tac (Teledyne RD Instruments) is a self-contained diver navigation system based on acoustic Doppler velocity log (DVL) technology that uses dead reckoning to compute displacements from a known starting point. The ... -
The Analysis of Sea Surface Imagery for Whitecap Kinematics
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)Visible sea surface images are analyzed to determine the distribution of the average length of breaking crests per unit sea surface area per unit speed increment ?(c). The ?(c) distribution offers a scale-dependent description ... -
A Conserved Minimal Adjustment Scheme for Stabilization of Hydrographic Profiles
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)Ocean (T, S) data analysis/assimilation, conducted in the three-dimensional physical space, is a generalized average of purely observed data (data analysis) or of modeled/observed data (data assimilation). Because of the ... -
An Example Crossover Experiment for Testing New Vicarious Calibration Techniques for Satellite Ocean Color Radiometry
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)Vicarious calibration of ocean color satellites involves the use of accurate surface measurements of water-leaving radiance to update and improve the system calibration of ocean color satellite sensors. An experiment was ... -
Measurement of Vertical Kinetic Energy and Vertical Velocity Skewness in Oceanic Boundary Layers by Imperfectly Lagrangian Floats
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)The effects of upward buoyancy on the accuracy with which Lagrangian floats can measure the Eulerian mean variance ?ww?E and skewness SwE of vertical fluid velocity w in the wind-driven upper-ocean boundary layer is ... -
Data Evaluation for a Newly Developed Slack-Line Mooring Buoy Deployed in the Eastern Indian Ocean
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)For the purpose of climate research and forecasting the Research Moored Array for African?Asian?Australian Monsoon Analysis and Prediction (RAMA) in the Indian Ocean has been planned. Development of RAMA has been gradually ... -
Wind Speed Dependence of Single-Site Wave-Height Retrievals from High-Frequency Radars
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)Wave-height observations derived from single-site high-frequency (HF) radar backscattered Doppler spectra are generally recognized to be less accurate than overlapping radar techniques but can provide significantly larger ... -
Application of Oxygen Eddy Correlation in Aquatic Systems
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)The eddy correlation technique is rapidly becoming an established method for resolving dissolved oxygen fluxes in natural aquatic systems. This direct and noninvasive determination of oxygen fluxes close to the sediment ... -
Technology, Design, and Operation of an Autonomous Buoy System in the Western English Channel
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)A buoy system has been developed to continually monitor the operationally demanding coastal and open-shelf environment of the western English Channel. The buoys measure a range of physical and biogeochemical parameters on ... -
A Comparison of Methods for Determining Significant Wave Heights—Applied to a 3-m Discus Buoy during Hurricane Katrina
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)In August 2005, the eye of Hurricane Katrina passed 90 km to the west of a 3-m discus buoy deployed in the Mississippi Sound and operated by the Central Gulf of Mexico Ocean Observing System (CenGOOS). The buoy motions ... -
HF Radar Performance in a Low-Energy Environment: CODAR SeaSonde Experience on the West Florida Shelf
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)Three long-range (5 MHz) Coastal Ocean Dynamics Application Radar (CODAR) SeaSonde HF radars overlooking an array of as many as eight moored acoustic Doppler current profilers (ADCPs) have operated on the West Florida Shelf ... -
A Practical Assessment of the Errors Associated with Full-Depth LADCP Profiles Obtained Using Teledyne RDI Workhorse Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)Lowered acoustic Doppler current profilers (LADCPs) are commonly used to measure full-depth velocity profiles in the ocean. Because LADCPs are lowered on hydrographic wires, elaborate data processing is required to remove ... -
Impact of Multialtimeter Sea Level Assimilation in the Mediterranean Forecasting Model
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)In this article the impact of multisatellite altimeter observations assimilation in a high-resolution Mediterranean model are analyzed. Four different altimeter missions [Jason-1, Envisat, Ocean Topography Experiment ... -
A Model-Based Observation-Thinning Scheme for the Assimilation of High-Resolution SST in the Shelf and Coastal Seas around China
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)The use of high-density remote sensing buoys and ship-based observations play an increasingly crucial role in the operational assimilation and forecast of oceans. With the recent release of several high-resolution observation ... -
Three-Dimensional Imaging of the High Sea-State Wave Field Encompassing Ship Slamming Events
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)Understanding and modeling ship wave slamming necessitates characterizing the surface wave field that results in slamming events. Shipboard measurements of the incoming wave field were made during sea trials of the twin-hull ... -
An Autonomous Open-Ocean Stereoscopic PIV Profiler
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)Over the past decade, a novel free-fall imaging profiler has been under development at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography to observe and quantify biological and physical structure in the upper 100 m of the ocean. The ... -
ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEANIC REVIEWERS FOR 2010
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Radiometric Performance of the CERES Earth Radiation Budget Climate Record Sensors on the EOS Aqua and Terra Spacecraft through April 2007
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)The Clouds and the Earth?s Radiant Energy System (CERES) flight models 1 through 4 instruments were launched aboard NASA?s Earth Observing System (EOS) Terra and Aqua spacecraft into 705-km sun-synchronous orbits with 10:30 ...