Surface Flux Studies

Abstract

I have analyzed observational data from BANGEX (Bangex5, 2008) experiments in terms of atmospheric surface flux including processing of gradient and fast turbulence probes. I wrote both processing code and graphical user interface to Bangex5 NPS and NRL flux and "tower" data (which allows to clean and merge the data) and looked at issues related to crossover time, solar contamination of temperature measurements, influence of meteorology on IR temperatures. 1 wrote an interface in "perl" and used "hash" (associative arrays) to combine the data set on "time key". For graphics I used "Ocean Data View" to develop observational evidence for diurnal variability of temperature of dissimilar objects in the surface layer for use in thermal contrast estimates. I performed analysis of the meteorological data including estimates of vertical and temporal gradients of temperature and fluxes.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 16, 2011
Accession Number
ADA546825

Entities

People

  • Piotr J. Flatau

Organizations

  • Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Atmospheric Sciences
  • California
  • Contamination
  • Content Addressable Memory
  • Contracts
  • Contrast
  • Data Sets
  • Electronic Mail
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Marine Meteorology
  • Measurement
  • Meteorological Data
  • Meteorology
  • Military Research
  • Oceanography
  • Universities
  • User Interface

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Atmospheric Remote Sensing.
  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Space/Atmospheric Physics.