The frictional layer in the observed momentum budget of the trades

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• Journal Title:
  Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
• Personal Author:
  Nuijens, L. ; Savazzi, A. ; de Boer, G. ; Brilouet, P‐E. ; George, G. ; Lothon, M. ; Zhang, D.
• NOAA Program & Office:
  OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research) ; CICOES (Cooperative Institute for Climate, Ocean and Ecosystem Studies) ; CIRES (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences) ; PMEL (Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory) ; PSL (Physical Sciences Laboratory)
• Description:
  Profiles of eddy momentum flux divergence are calculated as the residual in the momentum budget constructed from airborne circular dropsonde arrays (∼220km) for 13 days during the EUREC4A/ATOMIC field campaign. The observeddynamicalforcingaveragedoverallflightsagreesbroadlywithEuro-peanCentreforMedium-RangeWeatherForecasts(ECMWF)IntegratedFore- casting System (IFS) forecasts. In the direction of the flow, a mean flux diver- gence(friction)existsovera1.5-kmdeepEkmanlayer,andameanfluxconver-gence(acceleration)ispresentnearcloudtops.Thefrictioniscountergradient
• Keywords:
  Atmospheric Science
• Source:
  Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 148(748), 3343-3365
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.4364
• ISSN:
  0035-9009 ; 1477-870X
• Format:
  PDF
• Publisher:
  Wiley
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  Grant no. NA17OAR4320101 ; Grant no. NA22OAR4320151 ; Grant no. NA20OAR4320271
• License:
  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Rights Information:
  CC BY
• Compliance:
  Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:a48b77fa05801b994ec519b9c5e91180a1a1341cf5669e4c9491bf7d215a6d9a
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  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/54237/noaa_54237_DS1.pdf
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