Observation of Global Ocean-Atmosphere from Spaceborne Sensors Exchanges
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The ocean and the atmosphere are coupled by the fluxes of momentum, heat, and water, but in situ measurements of these fluxes are sparse and uneven. Global fields of these fluxes can be derived from satellite data or obtained from operational numerical weather prediction (NWP) models. The NWP models provide quality control and dynamic interpolation of sparse and uneven data. However, dynamic interpolation is only as good as the model physics ad pararnetezization scheme, and over most of the ocean, there may not be sufficient data for any useful interpolation. operational NWP models change frequently; the results are inconsistent of climatic studies. Reanalysis to produce long period of consistent data have only been started recently. Aclequate observations at temporal and spatial scales significant to global change research can only be achieved from the vantage point of space. Spaceborne sensors provide repeated global observations of some parameters from which these fluxes can be derived. The status and shortfalls of spacebascd estimation of the fluxes will be summarized ad assessed in this report. Satellite data can be assimilated into numerical model to simulate surface fluxes, but the progress in developing assimilation technique of unconventional satellite data has been slow.
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تاریخ انتشار 1999