Diurnal Cycle of Wind Speed and Precipitation Over the Northern Australia Coastal Region: CYGNSS Observations

The diurnal cycle of precipitation and its associated land-sea breeze circulation over coastal northern Australia are investigated using surface wind speed enthalpy (latent sensible heat) fluxes from the Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System. Composite results during austral summer 2018–2022 show that propagates westward Cape York Peninsula into Gulf Carpentaria. strongly coupled, with maximum slightly leading maximum. Additionally, analysis moist static energy budget shows help support westward-propagation precipitation. These results—based on novel satellite data reanalysis—are consistent previous studies have examined impact provide a benchmark for model representation this important atmosphere-ocean-land interaction.