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Air-sea heat exchange along the northern sea surface temperature front in the eastern tropical Pacific

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Thum, Nicolai

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The atmospheric response to the oceanic forcing in the eastern Pacific along the northern equatorial sea surface temperature (SST) front is investigated in terms of sensible and latent heat flux during the 6-month period 28 July 1999 through 27 January 2000. Of particular interest is the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL)...

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Masters Thesis

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AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Nicolai Thum for the degree of
Atmospheric boundary layer coupling to midlatitude mesoscale sea surface temperature anomalies

Creator:

Thum, Nicolai

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This thesis examines the mechanisms that couple the monthly-averaged atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) to open-ocean sea surface temperature (SST) perturbations on scales of 50-500 km. The observed positive correlation between surface wind speed anomalies and SST anomalies is successfully simulated using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. In numerical...

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Dissertation

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AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Nicolai Thum for the degree of