This study investigates the exchange of momentum between the atmosphere and ocean using data collected from four oceanic field experiments. Direct covariance estimates of momentum fluxes were collected in all four experiments and wind profiles were collected during three of them. The objective of the investigation is to improve parameterizations...
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: On the exchange of momentum over the open ocean. J. Phys. Oceanogr.,
43, 1589–1610, doi:10.1175/JPO
Highly resolved pressure measurements on the seafloor over New Jersey’s continental shelf reveal the pressure signature of nonlinear internal waves of depression as negative pressure perturbations. The sign of the perturbation is determined by the dominance of the internal hydrostatic pressure (p⁰Wh) due to isopycnal displacement over the contributions of...
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DOI: 10.1175/2010JPO4444.1
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Lateral stirring is a basic oceanographic phenomenon affecting the distribution of physical, chemical, and biological fields. Eddy stirring at scales on the order of 100 km (the mesoscale) is fairly well understood and explicitly represented in modern eddy-resolving numerical models of global ocean circulation. The same cannot be said for...
DYNAMO and TOGA-COARE observations and reanalysis-based surface flux products are
used to test theories of atmosphere-ocean interaction that explain the Madden-Julian
Oscillation (MJO). Negative intraseasonal outgoing longwave radiation, indicating deep
convective clouds, is in phase with increased surface wind stress, decreased solar heating,
and increased surface turbulent heat flux—mostly evaporation—from...
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Climate, 28(2), 597-622. doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00477.1
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American
Emerging application areas such as air pollution in megacities, wind energy, urban security, and operation of unmanned aerial vehicles have intensified scientific and societal interest in mountain meteorology. To address scientific needs and help improve the prediction of mountain weather, the U.S. Department of Defense has funded a research effort—the...
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mountain weather. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society,
96(11), 1945–1967. doi:10.1175/BAMS-D
DYNAMO and TOGA-COARE observations and reanalysis-based surface flux products are
used to test theories of atmosphere-ocean interaction that explain the Madden-Julian
Oscillation (MJO). Negative intraseasonal outgoing longwave radiation, indicating deep
convective clouds, is in phase with increased surface wind stress, decreased solar heating,
and increased surface turbulent heat flux—mostly evaporation—from...
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Interaction in TOGA COARE and DYNAMO. Journal of
Climate, 28(2), 597-622. doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00477.1
Little is known about mixing in the abyssal equatorial oceans in spite of its inferred importance for upwelling dense water. Here we present full-depth microstructure turbulence profiles obtained in the equatorial Pacific that show evidence for intense wind-generated abyssal mixing. Mixing was intensified over the bottom 700 m where the...
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circulation induced by a forced-dissipated Yanai
beam, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 40(5), 1118–1142, doi:10.1175
Simulations from a regional climate model (RCM) as part of a superensemble experiment were compared with observations of surface meteorological variables over the western United States. The RCM is the Hadley Centre Regional Climate Model, version 3, with improved physics parameterizations (HadRM3P) run at 25-km resolution and nested within the...
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7470-7488. doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00808.1
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American Meteorological
Subtropical marine stratus clouds regulate coastal and global climate, but future trends in these
clouds are uncertain. In coastal Southern California (CSCA), interannual variations in summer stratus cloud
occurrence are spatially coherent across 24 airfields and dictated by positive relationships with stability
above the marine boundary layer (MBL) and MBL...
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Oceans, J. Clim., 27(2), 925–940, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00165.1.
Bellomo, K., A. Clement, T. Mauritsen, G
The Luzon Strait is the generation region for strong internal tides that radiate westward into the South China Sea and eastward into the western Pacific. Intrusions of the Kuroshio and strong mesoscale variability in the Luzon Strait can influence their generation and propagation. Here, the authors use eight moorings and...
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Luzon Strait. Journal of
Physical Oceanography, 45(6), 1574-1594. doi:10.1175/JPO-D-14-0250.1
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