Aircraft Measurements for Understanding Air-Sea Coupling and Improving Coupled Model Predictions

Abstract

The long-term goal of this project is to understand the coupled air-sea processes and improve physical parameterizations of the coupled model in various large-scale forcing conditions. In FY14, the objectives of our analyses of the WP-3D based LASP measurements are to understand: 1) marine atmospheric boundary layer (MABL) structure and characteristics during the DYANMO/LASP field campaign; 2) influence of convection on MABL structure and the variability of atmospheric boundary layer thermodynamic properties across the DYNAMO domain during the suppressed and active phase of MJO; and 3) variability and distribution of upper ocean properties observed using the expendable probes during different phases of MJO.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2014
Accession Number
ADA616656

Entities

People

  • Qing Wang

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Arabian Sea
  • Boundaries
  • Boundary Layer
  • Convection
  • Data Sets
  • Inversion
  • Latitude
  • Layers
  • Measurement
  • Oceans
  • Salt Water
  • Surface Waters
  • Thermoclines
  • Thermodynamic Properties
  • Transitions
  • Water

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

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