Satellite observation of surface forcing over the warm pool

Author

Liu, W. Timothy ; Gautier, Catherine ; Landsfeld, Martin ; Tang, Wenqing

Author_Institution

Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1994

fDate

8-12 Aug 1994

Firstpage

559

Abstract

Daily variations of wind and solar forcing derived from satellite data were compared with sea surface temperature and temperature tendency during the Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere-Coupled Ocean Atmosphere Response Experiment. The correlation between solar flux and temperature tendency is positive indicating that the solar forcing is a significant factor in daily sea surface temperature change. Daily change in sea surface temperature does not have significant effect on incoming solar flux. Wind speed is negatively correlated with sea surface temperature and temperature tendency, underscoring the need to understand the feedback mechanism between wind forcing and thermal response

Keywords

atmospheric boundary layer; meteorology; oceanographic regions; wind; COARE; Coupled Ocean Atmosphere Response; Pacific Ocean; SST; TOGA; Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere; air sea interaction; daily variation; equatorial ocean; feedback mechanism; sea surface temperature; solar forcing; surface forcing; temperature tendency; thermal response; warm pool; wind forcing; Atmosphere; Clouds; Fluctuations; Geophysics computing; Ocean temperature; Satellites; Sea surface; Solar heating; Thermostats; Wind speed;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1994. IGARSS '94. Surface and Atmospheric Remote Sensing: Technologies, Data Analysis and Interpretation., International

Conference_Location

Pasadena, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1497-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1994.399183

Filename

399183