Air-sea fluxes retrieved from special sensor microwave imager data

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 102, Issue C6, 1997, Pages 12706-12726

  Chou, Shu Hsien ^a   Shie, Chung Lin ^b   Atlas, Robert M ^a   Ardizzone, Joe ^c  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^c GENERAL SCIENCES CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA FLUX; AIR/SEA FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; MOMENTUM TRANSFER; SATELLITE DATA; SSM/I;

EID: 0030782069     PISSN: 21699275     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97JC00978     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Agee, E. M., R. P. Howley, Latent and sensible heat flux calculations at the air-sea interface during AMTEX 74, J. Appl. Meteorol., 16, 443-447, 1977.
2. Atlas, R., R. N. Hoffman, S. C. Bloom, J. C. Jusem, J. Ardizzone, A multiyear global surface wind velocity dataset using SSM/I wind observations, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 77, 869-882, 1996.
3. Bates, J. J., High-frequency variability of special sensor microwave imager derived wind speed and moisture during an intraseasonal oscillation, J. Geophys. Res., 96, suppl, 3411-3423, 1991.
4. Bradley, E. F., P. A. Coppin, J. S. Godfrey, Measurements of sensible and latent heat flux in the western equatorial Pacific Ocean, J. Geophys. Res., 96, suppl, 3375-3389, 1991.
5. Bunker, A. F., H. Charnock, R. A. Goldsmith, A note on the heat balance of the Mediterranean and Red Seas, J. Mar. Res., 40, 73-84, 1982.
6. Chou, S.-H., A comparison of airborne eddy correlation and bulk aerodynamic methods for ocean-air turbulent fluxes during cold-air outbreaks, Boundary Layer Meteorol., 64, 75-100, 1993.
7. Chou, S.-H., M. P. Ferguson, Heat fluxes and roll circulations over the western Gulf Stream during an intense cold-air outbreak, Boundary Layer Meteorol., 55, 255-281, 1991.
8. Chou, S.-H., R. M. Atlas, C.-L. Shie, J. Ardizzone, Estimates of surface humidity and latent heat fluxes over oceans from SSM/I data, Mon. Weather Rev., 123, 2405-2425, 1995.
9. Chou, S.-H., C.-L. Shie, R. M. Atlas, J. Ardizzone, Evaporation estimates over global oceans from SSM/I data 8th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and OceanographyAm. Meteorol. Soc.Atlanta, Ga., 1996.
10. Crewell, S., E. Ruprecht, C. Simmer, Latent heat flux over north Atlantic Ocean-A case study, J. Appl. Meteorol., 30, 1627-1635, 1991.
11. da Silva, A., C. C. Young, S. Levitus, Atlas of surface marine data 1994, 1, Algorithms and procedures, NOAA Atlas NESDIS, 6, 83, Natl. Environ. Satell. Data and Inf. Serv., Washington, D. C., 1994 a.
12. da Silva, A., C. C. Young, S. Levitus, Atlas of surface marine data 1994, 2, Anomalies of directly observed quantities, NOAA Atlas NESDIS, 7, 416, Natl. Environ. Satell. Data and Inf. Serv., Washington, D. C., 1994 b.
13. Esbensen, S. K., Y. Kushnir, The heat budget of the global ocean: An atlas based on estimates from surface marine observations Rep. 29, 27Clim. Res. Inst., Oreg. State Univ., Corvallis, 1981.
14. Esbensen, S. K., R. W. Reynolds, Estimating monthly averaged air-sea transfers of heat and momentum using the bulk aerodynamic method, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 11, 457-465, 1981.
15. Esbensen, S. K., D. B. Chelton, D. Vickers, J. Sun, An analysis of errors in special sensor microwave imager evaporation estimates over the global oceans, J. Geophys. Res., 98, 7081-7101, 1993.
16. Fairall, C., E. F. Bradley, D. P. Rogers, J. B. Edson, G. S. Young, Bulk parameterization of air-sea fluxes for TOGA COARE, J. Geophys. Res., 101, 3747-3764, 1996.
17. Francey, R. J., J. R. Garratt, Interpretation of flux-profile observations at ITCE (1976), J. Appl. Meteorol., 20, 603-618, 1981.
18. Godfrey, J. S., A. C. M. Beljaars, On the turbulent fluxes of buoyancy, heat, and moisture at the air-sea interface at low wind speeds, J. Geophys. Res., 96, 22043-22048, 1991.
19. Hsu, S. A., B. W. Blanchard, The relationship between total precipitable water and surface-level humidity over the sea surface: A further evaluation, J. Geophys. Res., 94, 14539-14545, 1989.
20. Isemer, H.-J., L. Hasse, The Bunker Atlas of the North Atlantic Ocean 2, Air-Sea Interactions, 252, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1987.
21. Kaufeld, L., The development of a new Beaufort equivalent scale, Meteorol. Rundsch., 34, 17-23, 1981.
22. Kent, E. C., P. K. Tayor, B. S. Truscott, J. S. Hopkins, The accuracy of voluntary observing ship's meteorological observations-Results of the VSOP-NA, J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 10, 591-608, 1993.
23. Large, W. G., S. Pond, Sensible and latent heat flux measurements over the ocean, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 12, 464-482, 1982.
24. Liu, W. T., Statistical relation between monthly precipitable water and surface-level humidity over global oceans, Mon. Weather Rev., 114, 1591-1602, 1986.
25. Liu, W. T., Moisture and latent heat flux variabilities in the tropical Pacific derived from satellite data, J. Geophys. Res., 93, 6749-6760 and plates on 6965-6968, 1988.
26. Liu, W. T., K. B. Katsaros, J. A. Businger, Bulk parameterization of air-sea exchanges of heat and water vapor including the molecular constraints at the surface, J. Atmos. Sci., 36, 1722-1735, 1979.
27. Oberhuber, J. M., An atlas based on the COADS data set: The budgets of heat, buoyancy, and turbulence kinetic energy at the surface of the global ocean Rep. 15Max-Plank Inst. for Meteorol., Hamburg, Germany, 1988.
28. Reynolds, R. W., T. M. Smith, Improved global sea surface temperature analyses, J. Clim., 7, 929-948, 1994.
29. Reynolds, R. W., T. M. Smith, A high-resolution global sea surface temperature climatology, J. Clim., 8, 1571-1583, 1995.
30. Schulz, J., P. Schluessel, H. Grassl, Water vapor in the atmospheric boundary layer over oceans from SSM/I measurements, Int. J. Remote Sens., 14, 2773-2789, 1993.
31. Schumann, U., Minimum friction velocity and heat transfer in the rough surface layer of a convective boundary layer, Boundary Layer Meteorol., 44, 311-326, 1988.
32. Wagner, D., E. Ruprecht, C. Simmer, A combination of microwave observations from satellites and EOF analysis to retrieve vertical humidity profiles over the ocean, J. Appl. Meteorol., 29, 1142-1157, 1990.
33. Webster, P. J., R. Lukas, TOGA COARE: The TOGA coupled ocean-atmosphere response experiment, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 73, 1377-1416, 1992.
34. Wentz, F. J., User's manual SSM/I antenna temperature tapes, Revision 2 Tech. Rep. 060989, 16Remote Sens. Syst., Santa Rosa, Calif., 1993.
35. Wentz, F. J., User's manual SSM/I-2 Geophysical tapes Tech. Rep. 070194, 20Remote Sens. Syst., Santa Rosa, Calif., 1994.
36. Woodruff, S. D., R. J. Slutz, R. L. Jenne, P. M. Steurer, A comprehensive ocean-atmosphere data set, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 68, 1239-1250, 1987.