Surface wind vector measurements over the oceans are vital for scientists and forecasters to understand the Earth's global weather and climate. In the last two decades operational measurements of global ocean wind speeds were obtained from passive microwave radiometers (SSM/I’s); and over this period, full ocean surface wind vector data were obtained from several NASA and ESA scatterometry miss...

surface ozone (surface o3)is a secondary pollutant and there are only limited studies on ozone in south india. studies have revealed a strong correlation between higher ozone levels and warmer days. surface o3 along with its precursors like no2, co and ch4 are being measured at kanyakumari (8.0780° n, 77.5410° e), tamilnadu, india and in this paper we present the summer time variation of ozone ...

[1] Effects of high-frequency wind sampling on a near-global ocean model are studied by forcing the model with a 12 hourly averaged wind product and its 24 hourly subsamples in separate experiments. The differences in mixed layer depth and sea surface temperature resulting from these experiments are examined, and the underlying physical processes are investigated. The 24 hourly subsampling not ...

[1] Recent studies of air-sea interaction using satellite data have shown a high positive correlation between wind speed and sea surface temperature (SST) over mesoscale ocean features in certain frontal regions. The aim of this study is to determine to what extent mesoscale ocean dynamics modifies the surface wind speed over the global tropics between 40 S and 40 N. Cross-spectral and linear r...

downbursts are small-scale, short-lived and energetic events in the atmosphere. they usually occur from the beginning of spring to summer when the weather is more humid and the convective weather conditions are suitable. because of the small-scale property of the downburst, it has sometimes been observed only in a meteorological station and other stations have not observed considerable changes....

An earlier study showed that an atmosphere–ocean model of the Pacific develops a midlatitude oscillation that produces decadal sea surface temperature (SST) variability on the equator. The authors use the ocean component of this model to understand better how subtropical wind stress oscillations can cause such SST variability. The model ocean consists of three active layers that correspond to t...

The ocean algorithm is based on the physical Radiative Transfer Model (RTM) described in Wentz and Meissner [2000]. The RTM consists of an atmospheric absorption model for water vapor, oxygen and liquid cloud water and a sea surface emissivity model that parameterizes the emissivity as function of sea surface temperature, sea surface salinity, sea surface wind speed and direction. The details o...