Improving Surface Forcing of the Marginal Seas

Abstract

The PI s long-term goal is to understand the physical processes of the air-sea interaction and coupling of the ocean and the atmosphere on the regional scale and to predict the variability of the coupled ocean-atmosphere system. The main objectives of this study are (1) to better understand the variability of the surface forcing from diurnal-to-seasonal time scales in the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden, and the Arabian Gulf-Strait of Hormuz regions and (2) to examine the influence of complex coastal terrain and the atmospheric aerosols on the surface winds, radiative and air-sea fluxes in the Arabian Marginal Seas and Gulfs (AMSG).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2002
Accession Number
ADA627293

Entities

People

  • Shuyi S. Chen

Organizations

  • Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Arabian Sea
  • Atmospheres
  • Boundaries
  • Climate Change
  • Coastal Regions
  • Couplings
  • Heat Flux
  • Heat Loss
  • High Resolution
  • Indian Ocean
  • Meteorology
  • Oceans
  • Red Sea
  • Storm Surges
  • Terrain
  • Three Dimensional
  • Topography

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

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