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Bentamy, A. ; Piollé, J.F. ; Grouazel, A. ; Danielson, R. ; Gulev, S. ; Paul, F. ; Azelmat, H. ; Mathieu, P.P. ; von Schuckmann, K. ; Sathyendranath, S. ; Evers-King, H. ; Esau, I. ; Johannessen, J.A. ; Clayson, C.A. ; Pinker, R.T. ; Grodsky, S.A. ; Bourassa, M. ; Smith, S.R. ; Haines, K. ; Valdivieso, M. ; Merchant, C.J. ; Chapron, B. ; Anderson, A. ; Hollmann, R. ; Josey, S.A.
Title
Review and assessment of latent and sensible heat flux accuracy over the global oceans
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$loc['typeJournal Article']
Year
2017
Publication
Remote Sensing of Environment
Abbreviated Journal
Remote Sensing of Environment
Volume
201
Issue
Pages
196-218
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Ocean Heat Flux ; Latent heat flux ; Sensible heat flux ; Ocean heat content ; Scatterometer ; Surface wind ; Specfic air humidity ; OceanSites ; Remotely sensed data
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0034-4257
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COAPS @ mfield @
Serial
232
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Bourassa, M.A. ; Gille, S.T. ; Bitz, C. ; Carlson, D. ; Cerovecki, I. ; Clayson, C.A. ; Cronin, M.F. ; Drennan, W.M. ; Fairall, C.W. ; Hoffman, R.N. ; Magnusdottir, G. ; Pinker, R.T. ; Renfrew, I.A. ; Serreze, M. ; Speer, K. ; Talley, L.D. ; Wick, G.A.
Title
High-Latitude Ocean and Sea Ice Surface Fluxes: Challenges for Climate Research
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$loc['typeJournal Article']
Year
2013
Publication
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
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Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc.
Volume
94
Issue
3
Pages
403-423
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0003-0007
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NASA, NOAA, USCLIVAR
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$loc['no']
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COAPS @ mfield @
Serial
208
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Cronin, M.F. ; Gentemann, C.L. ; Edson, J. ; Ueki, I. ; Bourassa, M. ; Brown, S. ; Clayson, C.A. ; Fairall, C.W. ; Farrar, J.T. ; Gille, S.T. ; Gulev, S. ; Josey, S.A. ; Kato, S. ; Katsumata, M. ; Kent, E. ; Krug, M. ; Minnett, P.J. ; Parfitt, R. ; Pinker, R.T. ; Stackhouse Jr., P.W. ; Swart, S. ; Tomita, H. ; Vandemark, D. ; Weller, A.R. ; Yoneyama, K. ; Yu, L. ; Zhang, D.
Title
Air-Sea Fluxes With a Focus on Heat and Momentum
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$loc['typeJournal Article']
Year
2019
Publication
Frontiers in Marine Science
Abbreviated Journal
Front. Mar. Sci.
Volume
6
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Pages
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Turbulent and radiative exchanges of heat between the ocean and atmosphere (hereafter heat fluxes), ocean surface wind stress, and state variables used to estimate them, are Essential Ocean Variables (EOVs) and Essential Climate Variables (ECVs) influencing weather and climate. This paper describes an observational strategy for producing 3-hourly, 25-km (and an aspirational goal of hourly at 10-km) heat flux and wind stress fields over the global, ice-free ocean with breakthrough 1-day random uncertainty of 15 W m–2 and a bias of less than 5 W m–2. At present this accuracy target is met only for OceanSITES reference station moorings and research vessels (RVs) that follow best practices. To meet these targets globally, in the next decade, satellite-based observations must be optimized for boundary layer measurements of air temperature, humidity, sea surface temperature, and ocean wind stress. In order to tune and validate these satellite measurements, a complementary global in situ flux array, built around an expanded OceanSITES network of time series reference station moorings, is also needed. The array would include 500–1000 measurement platforms, including autonomous surface vehicles, moored and drifting buoys, RVs, the existing OceanSITES network of 22 flux sites, and new OceanSITES expanded in 19 key regions. This array would be globally distributed, with 1–3 measurement platforms in each nominal 10° by 10° box. These improved moisture and temperature profiles and surface data, if assimilated into Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) models, would lead to better representation of cloud formation processes, improving state variables and surface radiative and turbulent fluxes from these models. The in situ flux array provides globally distributed measurements and metrics for satellite algorithm development, product validation, and for improving satellite-based, NWP and blended flux products. In addition, some of these flux platforms will also measure direct turbulent fluxes, which can be used to improve algorithms for computation of air-sea exchange of heat and momentum in flux products and models. With these improved air-sea fluxes, the ocean’s influence on the atmosphere will be better quantified and lead to improved long-term weather forecasts, seasonal-interannual-decadal climate predictions, and regional climate projections.
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2296-7745
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COAPS @ user @
Serial
1067
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Curry, J.A. ; Bentamy, A. ; Bourassa, M.A. ; Bourras, D. ; Bradley, E.F. ; Brunke, M. ; Castro, S. ; Chou, S.H. ; Clayson, C.A. ; Emery, W.J. ; Eymard, L. ; Fairall, C.W. ; Kubota, M. ; Lin, B. ; Perrie, W. ; Reeder, R.A. ; Renfrew, I.A. ; Rossow, W.B. ; Schulz, J. ; Smith, S.R. ; Webster, P.J. ; Wick, G.A. ; Zeng, X.
Title
Seaflux
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$loc['typeJournal Article']
Year
2004
Publication
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Abbreviated Journal
Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc.
Volume
85
Issue
3
Pages
409-424
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Abstract
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0003-0007
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COAPS @ mfield @
Serial
459
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Fairall, C.W., Barnier, B., Berry, D.I, Bourassa, M.A., Bradley, E.F., Clayson, C.A., de Leeuw, G., Drennan, W.M., Gille, S.T., Gulev, S.K., Kent, E.C., McGillis, W.R., Quartly, G.D., Ryabinin, V., Smith, S.R., Weller, R.A., Yelland, M.J. and Zhang, H-M.
Title
Observations to Quantify Air-Sea Fluxes and Their Role in Climate Variability and Predictability
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$loc['typeConference Article']
Year
2010
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Proceedings of OceanObs'09: Sustained Ocean Observations and Information for Society, Vol. 2
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299-313
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European Space Agency
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Hall, J., Harrison, D.E. and Stammer, D. (eds.)
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NOAA, COD, NASA, NEWS
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COAPS @ mfield @
Serial
270
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Gentemann, C.L. ; Clayson, C.A. ; Brown, S. ; Lee, T. ; Parfitt, R. ; Farrar, J.T. ; Bourassa, M. ; Minnett, P.J. ; Seo, H. ; Gille, S.T. ; Zlotnicki, V.
Title
FluxSat: Measuring the Ocean-Atmosphere Turbulent Exchange of Heat and Moisture from Space
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$loc['typeJournal Article']
Year
2020
Publication
Remote Sensing
Abbreviated Journal
Remote Sensing
Volume
12
Issue
11
Pages
1796
Keywords
air-sea interactions ; mesoscale ; fluxes
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Recent results using wind and sea surface temperature data from satellites and high-resolution coupled models suggest that mesoscale ocean-atmosphere interactions affect the locations and evolution of storms and seasonal precipitation over continental regions such as the western US and Europe. The processes responsible for this coupling are difficult to verify due to the paucity of accurate air-sea turbulent heat and moisture flux data. These fluxes are currently derived by combining satellite measurements that are not coincident and have differing and relatively low spatial resolutions, introducing sampling errors that are largest in regions with high spatial and temporal variability. Observational errors related to sensor design also contribute to increased uncertainty. Leveraging recent advances in sensor technology, we here describe a satellite mission concept, FluxSat, that aims to simultaneously measure all variables necessary for accurate estimation of ocean-atmosphere turbulent heat and moisture fluxes and capture the effect of oceanic mesoscale forcing. Sensor design is expected to reduce observational errors of the latent and sensible heat fluxes by almost 50%. FluxSat will improve the accuracy of the fluxes at spatial scales critical to understanding the coupled ocean-atmosphere boundary layer system, providing measurements needed to improve weather forecasts and climate model simulations.
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2072-4292
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COAPS @ user @
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1111
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Gille, S. ; Bourassa, M.A. ; Clayson, C.A.
Title
Improving Observations of High-Latitude Fluxes Between Atmosphere, Ocean, and Ice: Surface Fluxes: Challenges at High Latitudes; Boulder, Colorado, 17-19 March 2010
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$loc['typeMagazine Article']
Year
2010
Publication
Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union
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Eos Trans. AGU
Volume
91
Issue
35
Pages
307
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0096-3941
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COAPS @ mfield @
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379
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Author
Liu, J. ; Curry, J.A. ; Clayson, C.A. ; Bourassa, M.A.
Title
High-Resolution Satellite Surface Latent Heat Fluxes in North Atlantic Hurricanes
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$loc['typeJournal Article']
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2011
Publication
Monthly Weather Review
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Mon. Wea. Rev.
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139
Issue
9
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2735-2747
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0027-0644
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NASA, NEWS
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COAPS @ mfield @
Serial
291
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