Hoffman, R. N., Privé, N., & Bourassa, M. (2017). Comments on “Reanalyses and Observations: What's the Difference?”. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. , 98 (11), 2455–2459.
Abstract: Are there important differences between reanalysis data and familiar observations and measurements? If so, what are they? This essay evaluates four possible answers that relate to: the role of inference, reliance on forecasts, the need to solve an ill-posed inverse problem, and understanding of errors and uncertainties. The last of these is argued to be most significant. The importance of characterizing uncertainties associated with results—whether those results are observations or measurements, analyses or reanalyses, or forecasts—is emphasized.
Weissman, D. E., & Bourassa, M. A. (2008). Measurements of the Effect of Rain-Induced Sea Surface Roughness on the QuikSCAT Scatterometer Radar Cross Section. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing , 46 (10), 2882–2894.
Weissman, D. E., Bourassa, M. A., O'Brien, J. J., & Tongue, J. S. (2003). Calibrating the quikscat/seawinds radar for measuring rainrate over the oceans. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing , 41 (12), 2814–2820.
Xu, X., Bower, A., Furey, H., & Chassignet, E. P. (2018). Variability of the Iceland-Scotland Overflow Water Transport Through the Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone: Results From an Eddying Simulation and Observations. J. Geophys. Res. Oceans , 123 (8), 5808–5823.
Abstract: Observations show that the westward transport of the Iceland‐Scotland overflow water (ISOW) through the Charlie‐Gibbs Fracture Zone (CGFZ) is highly variable. This study examines (a) where this variability comes from and (b) how it is related to the variability of ISOW transport at upstream locations in the Iceland Basin and other ISOW flow pathways. The analyses are based on a 35‐year 1/12° eddying Atlantic simulation that represents well the main features of the observed ISOW in the area of interest, in particular, the transport variability through the CGFZ. The results show that (a) the variability of the ISOW transport is closely correlated with that of the barotropic transports in the CGFZ associated with the meridional displacement of the North Atlantic Current front and is possibly induced by fluctuations of large‐scale zonal wind stress in the Western European Basin east of the CGFZ; (b) the variability of the ISOW transport is increased by a factor of 3 from the northern part of the Iceland Basin to the CGFZ region and transport time series at these two locations are not correlated, further suggesting that the variability at the CGFZ does not come from the upstream source; and (c) the variability of the ISOW transport at the CGFZ is strongly anticorrelated to that of the southward ISOW transport along the eastern flank of the Mid‐Atlantic Ridge, suggesting an out‐of‐phase covarying transport between these two ISOW pathways.
Kara, A. B., Wallcraft, A. J., Barron, C. N., Hurlburt, H. E., & Bourassa, M. A. (2008). Accuracy of 10 m winds from satellites and NWP products near land-sea boundaries. J. Geophys. Res. , 113 (C10).
Kennedy, A. J., Griffin, M. L., Morey, S. L., Smith, S. R., & O'Brien, J. J. (2007). Effects of El Niño-Southern Oscillation on sea level anomalies along the Gulf of Mexico coast. J. Geophys. Res. , 112 (C5).
Kara, A. B., Metzger, E. J., & Bourassa, M. A. (2007). Ocean current and wave effects on wind stress drag coefficient over the global ocean. Geophys. Res. Lett. , 34 (1).
Morey, S. L., Baig, S., Bourassa, M. A., Dukhovskoy, D. S., & O'Brien, J. J. (2006). Remote forcing contribution to storm-induced sea level rise during Hurricane Dennis. Geophys. Res. Lett. , 33 (19).
Gould, W. J., & Smith, S. R. (2006). Research vessels: Underutilized assets for climate observations. Eos Trans. AGU , 87 (22), 214.
Zamudio, L., Hurlburt, H. E., Metzger, E. J., Morey, S. L., O'Brien, J. J., Tilburg, C., et al. (2006). Interannual variability of Tehuantepec eddies. J. Geophys. Res. , 111 (C5).
