A study of near-surface winds in marine cyclones using multiple satellite sensors

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 769-781

  Dickinson, Suzanne ^a   Brown, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLONES; WIND FIELDS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; AIR/SEA INTERACTION; ERS-1; MARINE CYCLONE; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYER; SATELLITE SENSING; SATELLITE SENSOR; SSM/I; SURFACE WIND;

PACIFIC, (NORTH);

EID: 0029832638     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(1996)035<0769:ASONSW>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Atterna, E. P. W., 1991: The active microwave instrument on-board the ERS-1 satellite. Proc. IEEE, 79, 791-799.
2. Blanc, T. E., 1986: The effect of inaccuracies in weather-ship data on bulk-derived estimates of flux, stability and sea surface roughness. J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 3, 12-26.
3. Bond, N. A., and R. G. Fleagle, 1988: Prefrontal and postfrontal boundary layer processes over the ocean. Mon. Wea. Rev., 116, 1257-1273.
4. Brown, R. A., and W. T. Liu, 1982: An operational large-scale marine planetary boundary layer model. J. Appl. Meteor., 21, 261-269.
5. _, and R. Foster, 1994: On PBL models for general circulation models. Global Atmos.-Ocean Syst., 2, 163-183.
6. ECMWF Research Department, 1991: Research Manual 3 ECMWF Forecast Model Physical Parameterization, Meteorological Bulletin. 3d ed. ECMWF, 142 pp.
7. Foster, R. C., and R. A. Brown, 1994: On large scale PBL modelling: Surface wind and latent heat flux comparisons. Global Atmos. - Ocean Syst., 3, 199-219.
8. Freilich, M. H., and R. S. Dunbar, 1993: A preliminary C-band scatterometer model function for the ERS-1 AMI instrument. Proc. First ERS-1 Symp.-Space at the Service of the Environment, Cannes, France, ESA. 79-83.
9. Gilhousen, D. B., 1987: A field evaluation of NDBC moored buoy winds. J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 4, 94-104.
10. Goodberlet, M. A., and C. T. Swift, 1992: Improved retrievals from the DMSP wind speed algorithm under adverse weather conditions. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 30, 1076-1077.
11. _, _, and J. C. Wilkerson, 1989: Remote sensing of ocean surface winds with the Special Sensor Microwave/Imager. J. Geophys. Res., 94, 14 547-14 555.
12. Hollinger, J. P., 1988: DMSP special sensor microwave/imager calibration/validation. Final Rep. [Available from Space Sensing Branch, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375-5000.]
13. Large, W. G., J. Morzel, and G. B. Crawford, 1995: Accounting for surface wave distortion of the marine wind profile in low-level ocean storms wind measurements. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 25, 2959-2971.
14. Liu, T. W., K. B. Katsaros, and J. A. Businger, 1979: Bulk parameterization of air-sea exchanges of heat and water vapor including the molecular constraints at the interface. J. Atmos. Sci., 36, 1722-1735.
15. Lorenc, A. C., 1981: A global three-dimensional multivariate statistical interpolation scheme. Mon. Wea. Rev., 109, 701-721.
16. McMurdie, L. A., G. Levy, and K. B. Katsaros, 1987: On the relationship between scatterometer-derived convergences and atmospheric moisture. Mon. Wea. Rev., 115, 1281-1294.
17. Niiler, P., 1995: Deep concepts of the near-surface ocean boundary layer. 11th Symp. on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, Charlotte, NC, Amer. Meteor. Soc.
18. Pierson, W. J., 1990: Wind data and the marine boundary layer. Johns Hopkins APL Tech. Dig., 11, 388-391.
19. Randall, D. A., and Coauthors, 1992: Intercomparison and interpretation of surface energy fluxes in atmospheric general circulation models. J. Geophys. Res., 97(D4), 3711-3724.
20. Shanno, D. F., 1978: Conjugate gradient methods with inexact searches. Math. Oper. Res., 3, 244-256.
21. Simmons, A. J., D. M. Burbridge, M. Jarraud, C. Girard, and W. Wergen, 1989: The ECMWF medium-range prediction models development of the numerical formulations and the impact of increased resolution. Meteor. Atmos. Phys., 40, 28-60.
22. Trenberth, K. E., and A. Solomon, 1993: Implications of global atmospheric spatial spectra for processing and displaying data. J. Climate, 6, 531-545.
23. Wilkerson, J. C., and M. D. Earle, 1990: A study of differences between environmental reports by ships in the voluntary observing program and measurements from NOAA buoys. J. Geophys. Res., 95(C3), 3373-3385.