Sub-seasonal variance of surface meteorological parameters in buoy observations and reanalyses

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2007, Pages

  Serra, Yolande L ^a   Cronin, Meghan F ^b   Kiladis, George N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; STORMS; TROPICS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; SUB-SEASONAL VARIANCE; SURFACE METEOROLOGICAL PARAMETERS; TROPICAL STORMS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; BUOY SYSTEM; CLIMATOLOGY; METEOROLOGY; MODELING; MOORING SYSTEM; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 38849168817     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL029506     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Brunke, M. A., and X. Zeng (2002), Uncertainties in sea surface turbulent flux algorithms and data sets, J. Geophys. Res., 107(C10), 3141, doi:10.1029/2001JC000992.
2. Chelton, D. B., S. K. Esbensen, M. G. Schlax, N. Thum, and M. H. Freilich (2001), Observations of coupling between surface wind stress and sea surface temperature in the eastern tropical Pacific, J. Clim., 14, 1479-1498.
3. Cronin, M. F., N. Bond, C. Fairall, J. Hare, M. J. McPhaden, and R. A. Weller (2002), Enhanced oceanic and atmospheric monitoring underway in Eastern Pacific, Eos Trans. AGU, 83(19), 205.
4. Cronin, M. F., C. W. Fairall, and M. J. McPhaden (2006), An assessment of buoy-derived and numerical weather prediction surface heat fluxes in the tropical Pacific, J. Geophys. Res., 111, C06038, doi:10.1029/ 2005JC003324.
5. Deser, C., and C. A. Smith (1998), Diurnal and semidiurnal variations of the surface wind field over the tropical Pacific Ocean, J. Clim., 11, 1730-1748.
6. Fairall, C. W., E. F. Bradley, D. P. Rogers, J. B. Edson, and G. S. Young (1996), Bulk parameterization of air-sea fluxes for Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere Coupled-Ocean Atmosphere Response Experiment, J. Geophys. Res., 101(C2), 3747-3764.
7. Haurwitz, B., and A. D. Crowley (1973), The diurnal and semidiurnal barometric pressure oscillations: Global distribution and annual variation, Pure Appl. Geophys., 102, 193-222.
8. Hodges, K. I., B. J. Hoskins, J. Boyle, and C. Thorncroft (2003), A comparison of recent reanalysis datasets using objective feature tracking: Storm tracks and tropical easterly waves, Mon. Weather Rev., 131, 2012-2037.
9. Jiang, C., M. F. Cronin, K. A. Kelly, and L. Thompson (2005), Evaluation of a hybrid satellite-and NWP-based turbulent heat flux product using Tropical Atmosphere-Ocean (TAO) buoys, J. Geophys. Res., 110, C09007, doi:10.1029/2004JC002824.
10. Kalnay, E., et al. (1996), The NCEP/NCAR 40-year reanalysis project, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 77, 437-471.
11. Kanamitsu, M., W. Ebisuzaki, J. Woollen, S.-K. Yang, J. J. Hnilo, M. Fiorino, and G. L. Potter (2002), NCEP-DOE AMEP-II reanalysis (R-2), Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 83, 1631-1643.
12. Kelly, K. A., S. Dickinson, M. J. McPhaden, and G. C. Johnson (2001), Ocean currents evident in satellite wind data, Geophys. Res. Lett., 28(12), 2469-2472.
13. Lin, J.-L., et al. (2006), Tropical intraseasonal variability in 14 IPCC AR4 climate models: Part I: Convective signals, J. Clim., 19, 2665-2690.
14. McNoldy, B. D., P. E. Ciesielski, W. H. Schubert, and R. H. Johnson (2004), Surface winds, divergence, and vorticity in stratocumulus regions using QuikSCAT and reanalysis winds, Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L08105, doi:10.1029/2004GL019768.
15. McPhaden, M. J., et al. (1998), The Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere observing system: A decade of progress, J. Geophys. Res., 103(C7), 14,169-14,240.
16. Roundy, P. E., and W. M. Frank (2004), A climatology of waves in the equatorial region, J. Atmos. Sci., 61(17), 2105-2132.
17. Schafer, R., S. K. Avery, K. S. Gage, and G. N. Kiladis (2007), Wind profiler observations over the central equatorial Pacific: Optimizing processing to improve quality and height coverage, J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., in press.
18. Uppala, S., et al. (2005), The ERA-40 re-analysis, Q.J.R. Meteorol. Soc., 131(612), 2961-3012.