Developing techniques for studying the surface ocean - Lower atmosphere system

Brian Ward, Sebastian Landwehr, Graig Sutherland, Niall O'Sullivan, Brian Scanlon, Adrian Callaghan, Xavier Sanchez, Kai Christensen, Göran Broström, Jonathan Lilly, Scott Miller, Neil Mitchell, Gene Terray

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Abstract

The Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS) regards the ocean and atmosphere as coupled system which should be studied in unison. One of the main foci of SOLAS is to achieve an understanding of air-sea exchange of heat, gases momentum aersols, and water. In order to fully understand the processes governing these air-sea fluxes, the small scale processes on both sides of the air-sea interface need to be measured. These measurement techniques also need to be modelled in order to quantify some of the errors associated with the measurements. In this paper, we describe some of the techniques that we have available for studying the SOLAS domain. These include the Air-Sea Interaction Profiler (ASIP); eddy covariance direct air sea fluxes; and computational fluid dynamics (CFD).

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the ESA, SOLAS and EGU Joint Conference Earth Observation for Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions Science
PublisherEuropean Space Agency
ISBN (Print)9789290922674
Publication statusPublished - 2012
EventESA, SOLAS and EGU Joint Conference Earth Observation for Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions Science - Frascati, Italy
Duration: 29 Nov 20112 Dec 2011

Publication series

NameEuropean Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP
Volume703 SP
ISSN (Print)0379-6566

Conference

ConferenceESA, SOLAS and EGU Joint Conference Earth Observation for Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions Science
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityFrascati
Period29/11/112/12/11

Keywords

  • Air-sea fluxes
  • Computational fluid dynamics
  • Eddy correlation
  • Upper ocean turbulence

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