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High Latitude Surface Fluxes Working Group Reports
  • Working Group report to US CLIVAR Summit 2008 (pdf)
  • Working Group article in US CLIVAR Variations (pdf)

Additional High Latitude Surface Fluxes References

  • Bourassa, M. A., 2006: Satellite-based observations of surface turbulent stress during severe weather, Atmosphere - ocean interactions, Vol. 2., W. Perrie, Ed., Wessex Institute of Technology Press, 35 – 52 pp.
  • Bourassa, M. A., R. Romero, S. R. Smith, and J. J. O’Brien, 2005: A new FSU winds climatology. J. Climate, 18, 3686-3698.
  • Chou, S.-H., E. Nelkin, J. Ardizzone, R. M. Atlas, and C.-L. Shie, 2003: Surface turbulent heat and momentum fluxes over global oceans based on the Goddard satellite retrievals, version 2 (GSSTF2). J. Climate, 16, 3256-3273.
  • Fairall, C. W., E. F. Bradley, J. E. Hare, A. A. Grachev, and J. B. Edson, 2003: Bulk parameterizations of air-sea fluxes: updates and verification for the COARE algorithm. J. Climate., 16, 571-591.
  • Grassl, H., V. Jost, J. Schulz, M. R. Ramesh Kumar, P. Bauer, and P. Schluessel, 2000: The Hamburg Ocean-Atmosphere Parameters and Fluxes from Satellite Data (HOAPS): A Climatological Atlas of Satellite-Derived Air-Sea Interaction Parameters over the World Oceans. Report No. 312, ISSN 0937-1060, Max Plank Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg,. [Available at http://www.hoaps.zmaw.de/]
  • Hilburn, K. A., M. A. Bourassa, and J. J. O'Brien, 2003: Scatterometer-derived research-quality surface pressure fields for the Southern Ocean. J. Geophys. Res., 108, 10.1029/2003JC001772.
  • Josey, S. A., E. C. Kent, and P. K. Taylor, 1998: The Southampton Oceanography Centre (SOC) Ocean-Atmosphere Heat, Momentum and Freshwater Flux Atlas. Southampton Oceanography Centre Rep. 6, Southampton, UK, 30pp + figs. [Available at http://www.noc.soton.ac.uk/JRD/MET/PDF/SOC_flux_atlas.pdf]
  • Kanamitsu, M., W. Ebisuzaki, J. Woollen, S.-K. Yang, J. J. Hnilo, M. Fiorino, and G. L. Potter, 2002: NCEP-DOE AMIP-II Reanalysis (R-2). Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 83, 1631-1643.
  • Kara, A. B.,  H. E. Hurlburt, and A. J. Wallcraft, 2005: Stability-dependent exchange coefficients for air-sea fluxes. J. Atmos. and Oceanic Technol., 22, 1080-1094.
  • Langland, R. H., R. N. Maue, and C. H. Bishop, 2008: Uncertainty in Atmospheric Temperature Analyses. Tellus. (in revision).
  • Large, W. G., and S. Pond, 1981: Open ocean momentum flux measurements in moderate to strong winds. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 11, 324-336.
  • ______, and ______, 1982: Sensible and latent heat flux measurements over the ocean. J. Phys. Oceanogr.: 12, 464–482.
  • ______, J. C. McWilliams, and S. C. Doney, 1994: Oceanic vertical mixing: a review and a model with a nonlocal boundary layer parameterization. Rev. Geophys., 32. 363-403.
  • Levitus, S., J. Antonov and T. Boyer, 2005: Warming of the world ocean, 1955-2003, Geophys. Res. Lett.32,  L02604, doi:10.1029/2004GL021592.
    Onogi, K., and coauthors, 2007: The JRA-25 Reanalysis. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 85, 369-432.
  • Smith, S. D., 1980: Coefficients for sea surface wind stress, heat flux, and wind profiles as a function of wind speed and temperature. J. Geophys. Res., 93, 15,467-15,472.
  • ______, R. J. Anderson, W. A. Oost, C. Kraan, N. Maat, J. DeCosmo, K. B. Katsaros, K. L. Davidson, K. Bumke, L. Hasse, and H. M. Chadwick, 1992: Sea surface wind stress and drag coefficients: the HEXOS results. Bound.-Layer. Meteoro., 60, 109-142.
  • Taylor, P. K., and M. J. Yelland, 2001: The Dependence of sea surface roughness on the height and steepness of the waves. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 31, 572-590.
  • Uppala, S. M., and coauthors, 2005: The ERA-40 re-analysis. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 131, 2961-3012.
  • Yu, L., and R. A. Weller, 2007: Objectively analyzed air-sea heat fluxes for the global ice-free oceans (1981-2005). Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 88, 527-539.
 

 

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