Small‐Scale Spatial Variations of Air‐Sea Heat, Moisture, and Buoyancy Fluxes in the Tropical Trade Winds

Iyer, Suneil; Drushka, Kyla; Thompson, Elizabeth J.; Thomson, Jim

doi:10.1029/2022jc018972

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Small‐Scale Spatial Variations of Air‐Sea Heat, Moisture, and Buoyancy Fluxes in the Tropical Trade Winds

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2022
By Iyer, Suneil ; Drushka, Kyla ; Thompson, Elizabeth J. ; ...

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Journal Title:

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
Personal Author:

Iyer, Suneil ; Drushka, Kyla ; Thompson, Elizabeth J. ; Thomson, Jim
NOAA Program & Office:

OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research) ; PSL (Physical Sciences Laboratory)
Description:

Observations from two autonomous Wave Gliders and six Lagrangian Surface Wave Instrument Float with Tracking drifters in the northwestern tropical Atlantic during the January–February 2020 NOAA Atlantic Tradewind Ocean-atmosphere Mesoscale Interaction Campaign (ATOMIC) are used to evaluate the spatial variability of bulk air-sea heat, moisture, and buoyancy fluxes. Sea surface temperature (SST) gradients up to 0.7°C across 10–100 km frequently persisted for several days. SST gradients were a leading cause of systematic spatial air-sea sensible heat flux gradients, as variations over 5 Wm −2 across under 20 km were observed. Wind speed gradients played no significant role and air temperature adjustments to SST
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Earth And Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) Geochemistry And Petrology Geophysics Oceanography Space And Planetary Science Earth And Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) Geochemistry And Petrology Space And Planetary Science Earth And Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) Geochemistry And Petrology Space And Planetary Science
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Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 127(10)
DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1029/2022jc018972
ISSN:

2169-9275 ; 2169-9291
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American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Document Type:

Journal Article
Funding:

Grant no. NA19OAR4310374
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
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CC BY-NC
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