Assessing the potential of the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) surface temperature and specific humidity in turbulent heat flux estimates in the southern Ocean

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 115, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Dong, Shenfu ^a   Gille, Sarah T ^b   Sprintall, Janet ^b   Fetzer, Eric J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DEVICES; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; CLIMATOLOGY; HEAT FLUX; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED INSTRUMENTS; MOISTURE; OCEANOGRAPHY; SOUNDING APPARATUS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER; AIR-SEA TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCE; AIRS RETRIEVAL; ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDERS; ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH REANALYSIS; CLOUD FRACTION; DRAKE PASSAGE; FLUX PRODUCT; RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; SATELLITE RETRIEVAL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SENSIBLE AND LATENT HEAT FLUXES; SHIPBOARD MEASUREMENTS; SOUTHERN OCEAN; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; SPECIFIC HUMIDITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TURBULENT FLUX; TURBULENT HEAT FLUXES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ACOUSTIC EQUIPMENT; AIR TEMPERATURE; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SHIPBORNE MEASUREMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TURBULENT FLOW;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 77953585590     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JC005542     Document Type: Article

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