Microphysics of Air-Sea Exchanges

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Abstract:

The research efforts are targeted at improving our understanding of the microphysics of air-sea exchanges, especially the physics of the oceanic thermal skin and diurnally-influenced layers. This will lead to better assimilation of satellite-derived sea-surface temperature SST fields into meaningful climatologies and to more physically-based applications of satellite data to studies of air-sea interactions and to other naval applications. The constellation of satellites with infrared radiometers for SST measurements has a range of local over-pass times and, because of the diurnally forced fluctuation in SST and of the fluctuations of the skin effect in response to differing air-sea fluxes, this creates a problem in combining these fields into a reliable, consistent composite analysis. The results of this new research will improve the reliability of such composite analyses for naval applications.

Author(s):
Brown, O. B. ; Evans, R. H. ; Donelan, M. A. ; Minnett, P. J. ; Ward, B. ; Mcgillis, W. R.
Author Organization(s):
ROSENSTIEL SCHOOL OF MARINE AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE MIAMI FL DIV OF MARINE AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE
Descriptive Note:
Annual rept.
Supplementary Note:
Prepared in collaboration with Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA. DOI: 10.21236/ADA629222
Pagination:
0008

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DOCUMENT & CONTEXTUAL SUMMARY

Distribution:
Approved For Public Release
Distribution Statement:
Approved For Public Release; Distribution Is Unlimited.

RECORD

Collection: TR
Identifying Numbers
Contract/Grant Number(s):
N00014-03-1-0384
Monitor Series:
ONR
 Subject Terms
Joint Capability Areas:
JCA_5_Command and Control; JCA_5.3_Planning; JCA_2.2.2_Imagery Collection; JCA_2.2_Collection; JCA_5.3.3_Develop Strategy; JCA_5.3.4_Develop Courses of Action; JCA_5.3.5_Analyze Courses of Action; JCA_1.2.3_Educating; JCA_1.2.7_Experimentation; JCA_4.6_Engineering
Modernization Areas:
Space
Communities of Interest:
Space
Descriptor(s):
*AIR WATER INTERACTIONS, *OCEAN SURFACE, *TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS, *WIND, EXCHANGE, FLUX(RATE), LAYERS, MARINE CLIMATOLOGY, RADIOMETERS, SURFACE TEMPERATURE
Field(s)/Group(s):
Meteorology, Physical and Dynamic Oceanography, Thermodynamics
Keyword(s):
*MICROPHYSICS, AIR SEA EXCHANGES, OCEANIC THERMAL SKIN, SST(SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE), ASIST(AIR SEA INTERACTION SALTWATER TANK)
Report Date:
2003 Sep 30
Creation Date:
2016 Apr 13