A Comparative Study of Digitized Brightness and 200-mb Divergence in the Tropical Western North Pacific.
Abstract
An attempt is made to investigate the relationship between the digitized satellite brightness data and the kinematically computed 200-mb divergence in the tropical western North Pacific during the period 19 April-20 December 1971. Both spectral and correlation analyses techniques are used. The power spectra of the two fields reveal two dominant period bands: one centered at approximately 10 days and the other at approximately 5 days. Horizontal structures, as shown in the inter-longitudinal cross-spectra in the two bands, suggest that brightness is more organized than divergence, although the two fields resemble well each other whenever an organized divergence pattern is observed.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1974
- Accession Number
- ADA001246
Entities
People
- Eriberto C. Varona
Organizations
- Naval Postgraduate School