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Creator:: O'Neill, Larry W., Chelton, Dudley B., and Esbensen, Steven K.
Abstract:: The effects of surface wind speed and direction gradients on midlatitude surface vorticity and divergence fields associated with mesoscale sea surface temperature (SST) variability having spatial scales of 100–1000 km are investigated using vector wind observations from the SeaWinds scatterometer on the Quick Scatterometer (QuikSCAT) satellite and SST from the...
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Full Text:: surface wind speed perturbations (e.g., Mantua et al. 1997; Okumura et al. 2001; Xie 2004). Over these

Creator:: Risien, Craig M. and Chelton, Dudley B.
Abstract:: Global seasonal cycles of the wind and wind stress fields estimated from the 8-yr record (September 1999–August 2007) of wind measurements by the NASA Quick Scatterometer (QuikSCAT) are presented. While this atlas, referred to here as the Scatterometer Climatology of Ocean Winds (SCOW), consists of 12 variables, the focus here...
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Full Text:: )–National Cen- ter for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) reanalysis sur- face wind fields contain evidence of

Creator:: Chelton, Dudley B.
Abstract:: The impact of SST specification on low-level winds in the operational ECMWF numerical weather prediction model is investigated in the eastern tropical Pacific from comparisons of ECMWF wind stress fields with QuikSCAT satellite scatterometer observations of wind stress during the August–December cold seasons of 2000 and 2001. These two time...
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Full Text:: coupling exists wherever there are strong SST fronts (Chelton et al. 2004; Xie 2004). The objec- tive of

Creator:: Maloney, Eric D. and Chelton, Dudley B.
Abstract:: The ability of six climate models to capture the observed coupling between SST and surface wind stress in the vicinity of strong midlatitude SST fronts is analyzed. The analysis emphasizes air–sea interactions associated with ocean meanders in the eastward extensions of major western boundary current systems such as the Gulf...
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Full Text:: - vations in regions of strong SST gradients associated with ocean currents (O’Neill et al. 2003; Xie 2004

Creator:: Maloney, Eric D., Chelton, Dudley B., and Esbensen, Steven K.
Abstract:: Boreal summer intraseasonal (30–90-day time scale) sea surface temperature (SST) variability in the east Pacific warm pool is examined using Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Microwave Imager (TMI) sea surface temperatures during 1998–2005. Intraseasonal SST variance maximizes at two locations in the warm pool: in the vicinity of 9°N, 92°W...
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Full Text:: east Pacific. We compare TMI SST at the 1° � 1° grid cell cen- tered at 8°N, 95°W to 1-m ocean

Creator:: Chelton, Dudley B., Esbensen, Steven K., Schlax, Michael G., Thum, Nicolai, Freilich, Michael H., Wentz, Frank J., Gentemann, Chelle L., McPhaden, Michael J., and Schopf, Paul S.
Abstract:: Satellite measurements of surface wind stress from the QuikSCAT scatterometer and sea surface temperature (SST) from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission Microwave Imager are analyzed for the three-month period 21 July–20 October 1999 to investigate ocean–atmosphere coupling in the eastern tropical Pacific. Oceanic tropical instability waves (TIWs) with periods of...
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Full Text:: investigated by Xie et al. (1998) from weekly averages of satellite infrared observations of SST and Earth

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