Upper Ocean Heat Budget in the Southeast Pacific Stratus Cloud Region using Eddy-Resolving HYCOM

Abstract

CONCLUSIONS: Geostrophic transport in the upper 50m causes net cooling in most of the stratus cloud region. Ekman transport provides net warming north of the IMET site and net cooling south of the IMET site. The eddy heat flux divergence term can be comparable to other terms at a particular location such as the IMET site, but it is negligible for the entire stratus region when area averaged since it is not spatially coherent in the open ocean. Surface buoy observations in locations both north and south of the IMET site would be useful.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2009
Accession Number
ADA537799

Entities

People

  • Benjamin Geise
  • George Kiladis
  • Harley Hurlburt
  • Jialin Lin
  • Joseph Metzger
  • Toshi Shinoda
  • Yangxing Zheng

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Climate Change
  • Clouds
  • Energy
  • Heat Balance
  • Heat Energy
  • Heat Flux
  • Information Operations
  • Military Research
  • Offshore Structures
  • Regions
  • Stratus Clouds
  • Transport Ships
  • Universities

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Circadian Sleep-Wake Regulation and Chronobiology
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers
  • Seismology