Toward a Better Determination of Turbulent Air–Sea Fluxes from Several Experiments

• DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2003)016<0600:tabdot>2.0.co;2
• Publication Date: 2003-02-06T23:53:47Z
• Authors: A. Weill; L. Eymard; G. Caniaux; D. Hauser; S. Planton; H. Dupuis; A. Brut; C. Guerin; P. Nacass; A. Butet; S. Cloché; R. Pedreros; P. Durand; D. Bourras; H. Giordani; G. Lachaud; G. Bouhours
• Keywords: Scatterometer; Distortion (music)

An accurate determination of turbulent exchanges between the ocean and atmosphere is a prerequisite to identify assess mechanisms interaction that control part variability in two media over wide range spatial temporal scales. extended dataset for estimating air–sea fluxes (representing nearly 5700 h turbulence measurements) has been collected since 1992 during six dedicated experiments performed Atlantic Ocean Mediterranean Sea. This paper presents methodology used through successive progress this field. The major developments concern (i) flux instrumentation, with deployment microwave refractometer get latent heat most meteorological conditions; (ii) analysis airflow distortion effects around ship structure sensors both computational fluid dynamics physical simulations water tank, then derivation correction these effects; (iii) application inertial dissipation eddy-correlation methods from various experiments, allowing authors discuss flux-determination on ships, particularly bulk parameterization; (iv) validation mesoscale surface fields models satellites by using data, showing some deficiencies operational model ECMWF, need high-quality interpret ocean–atmosphere exchanges, potential advantage satellite retrieval methods. Further datasets being unique database (the ALBATROS project, open international scientific community). It will include refinement reprocessing earlier datasets, investigation under specific conditions (low wind), effect sea state among others. also contribute further improvements retrievals climatic/meteorological conditions.