The atmospheric water contents when sea surface temperature is observable by remote sensing

Author

Tamba, Sumio ; Yokoyama, Ryuzo

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Iwate Univ., Morioka, Japan

fYear

1993

fDate

18-21 Aug 1993

Firstpage

137

Abstract

By referring to the 5600 radiosonde data collected from 1984 to 1991 at Misawa JDA radiosonde station near Mutsu Bay, Japan, the characteristics of the atmospheric water content were investigated. Then it was found that under cloud cover conditions of 0 or 1, the precipitable water content is restricted in a specific narrow range of the total distribution of the annual water contents. A fine day model atmosphere was constructed by averaging the sonde data of fine days. Then by using the LOWTRAN-7 model, the SST estimation function is calculated to compare with the SST estimation function derived by regression analysis to the sea truth data set

Keywords

infrared imaging; oceanographic techniques; remote sensing; Japan; Misawa; Mutsu Bay; SST; atmospheric water content; cloud cover; estimation function; humidity; measurement technique; ocean; optical IR; remote sensing; sea surface temperature; Atmosphere; Atmospheric modeling; Clouds; Histograms; Humidity; Ocean temperature; Regression analysis; Remote sensing; Sea surface; Temperature sensors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1993. IGARSS '93. Better Understanding of Earth Environment., International

Conference_Location

Tokyo

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1240-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1993.322507

Filename

322507