Aircraft Measurements for Understanding Air-Sea Coupling and Improving Coupled Model Predictions
Abstract
The NOAA WP-3D efforts of DYNAMO/LASP intend to address critical issues in air-sea interaction processes in different stages of MJO events. The measurement objectives include 1) to make concurrent measurements of the atmosphere, surface, and the upper ocean for coupled air-sea interaction study; 2) to characterize convective processes and understand the complex feedback processes among surface forcing, cloud dynamics and thermodynamics, radiation, and environmental conditions in various phases of the MJO; 3) to extend point measurements on island and ships to a broader area near the DYNAMO region; and 4) To obtain a suite of measurements suitable for model evaluation/validation as well as data assimilations. In FY13, the objectives of our analyses of the WP- 3D LASP measurements include: 1) extensive data QC of the AXBT/AXCTD data and analyses of the upper ocean characteristics in different phases of the MJO; 2) to characterize the atmospheric boundary layers observed in LASP in convective and non-convective conditions; 3) to understand the variation of air-sea coupling in different stages of the MJO.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 30, 2013
- Accession Number
- ADA598098
Entities
People
- Anthony Bucholtz
- Qing Wang
Organizations
- Naval Postgraduate School