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Smith, S. R., Maue, R. N., & Bourassa, M. A. (2008). 'Global Winds', State of the Climate in 2007. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, , 532–534.
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Verzone, K. V., Bourassa, M. A., Bachiochi, D., Cocke, S. D., LaRow, T. E., & O'Brien, J. J. (2000). Double Ensemble Estimates of Precipitation in the Southeastern United States for Extreme ENSO Events (H. Ritchie, Ed.).
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Weissman, D. E., Apgar, G., Tongue, J. S., & Bourassa, M. A. (2005). Corrections to the SeaWinds scatterometer wind vectors by removing rain effects. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 86, 621–622.
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Weissman, D. E., & Bourassa, M. A. (2009). The combined effect of surface rain and wind on scatterometer observations of surface roughness. In 2009 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IEEE, Cape Town, South Africa (I-pp. 108– I-111).
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Weissman, D. E., & Bourassa, M. A. (2008). Measurements of the Effect of Rain-induced Sea Surface Roughness on the Satellite Scatterometer Radar Cross Section. In XXIX General Assembly of the International Union of Radio Science, Union of Radio Science International (Vol. 4).
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Weissman, D. E., Bourassa, M. A., & Tongue, J. (1999). Relationship between QuikSCAT wind speed errors and rain rate using simultaneous, collocated NEXRAD data. In Arcadia, CA, USA.
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Zavala-Hidalgo, J., Yu, P., Morey, S. L., Bourassa, M. A., & O'Brien, J. J. (2003). A new interpolation method for high frequency forcing fields (J. Cote, Ed.). Research Activities in Atmospheric and Oceanic Modeling, Report No. 33. Geneva, Switzerland: World Meteorological Organization.
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Zheng, Y., Bourassa, M. A., & Dukhovskoy, D. S. (2018). Upper-Ocean Processes Controlling the Sea Surface Temperature in the Western Gulf of Mexico. In American Geophysical Union (Vol. Fall Meeting).
Abstract: This study examines the upper-ocean processes controlling the mixed layer temperature in the western Gulf of Mexico (GOM) through estimating the contributing terms in the heat equation, with an emphasis on eddies' role. The major heat contributing terms for the upper GOM were estimated using two ocean reanalysis datasets: an eddy-resolving HYbrid Coordinate Ocean Model (HYCOM) and a Simple Ocean Data Assimilation (SODA). Analysis of net surface heat fluxes from four datasets reveals that the long-term mean net surface heat flux cools the northern GOM and warms the southern GOM. Two regions are focused for analysis: an eddy-rich region where LCEs are energetic, and the southwestern Gulf where eddy activity is relatively weak and the features of near surface temperature differ from the eddy-rich region. An eddy-rich region in the western GOM is defined based on the eddy kinetic energy derived from satellite sea surface heights. The long-term mean horizontal heat advection causes a weak warming over most of the eddy rich region, partly attributed to the flow-temperature configuration that the long-term and seasonally mean flow is nearly parallel to the corresponding mean isotherms. By contrast, the temporal mean vertical heat advection causes a strong warming in the eddy rich region, partly balancing the cooling caused by net surface heat flux. The temporal mean eddy heat flux convergence in the western GOM, whose positive and negative values are not small at some locations, appears heterogeneous in space, resulting in a small term for the western GOM when area averaged. The persistent warm water in the southwestern Gulf is primarily caused by the net warming from net surface heat flux rather than from eddies and heat advection.
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Zierden, D. F., Bourassa, M. A., & O'Brien, J. J. (1999). Cyclone Surface Pressures and Frontogenesis from NASA Scatterometer (NSCAT) Winds (H. Ritchie, Ed.). CAS/JSC Working Group on Numerical Experimentation, Research Activities in Atmospheric and Oceanic Modeling, World Meteorological Organization. Geneva, Switzerland.
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