The Effect of Infrared Sea Surface Temperature Measurements on Evaporatlon Duct Height Estimation.

Abstract

In September 1994 personnel from the Naval postgraduate School (NPS) and the Naval Oceanographic Office (NavO) conducted an experiment off the coast of Mississippi to determine the accuracy of infrared sea surface temperature (SST) measurements made from a small boat1 and the effect of these measurements on estimating the evaporation duct height (z*). It was found that infrared SST measurements are highly accurate, agreeing closely with SST measurements made by other methods, and that a small relative error in the SST measurements can lead to large errors in z* estimates. However, it is difficult to predict the effect a given error in SST will have on the resulting z* estimate, due to the complex relationship between SST and z*.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 30, 1994
Accession Number
ADA289045

Entities

People

  • F. K. Jones
  • Kenneth L. Davidson
  • P. A. Frederickson

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Air Temperature
  • Barometric Pressure
  • Equations
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Heat Energy
  • Infrared Detectors
  • Latent Heat
  • Measurement
  • Meteorology
  • Pressure Measurement
  • Radiation
  • Sea Surface Temperature
  • Surface Properties
  • Surface Temperature
  • Turbulent Mixing
  • Water

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Geodesy
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers
  • Oceanography.