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Turbulent Fluxes Over the Ocean
  • Alam, A. and J.A. Curry, 1997: Determination of surface turbulent fluxes over leads in arctic sea ice. J. Geophys. Res., 102, 3331-3344.
  • Andreas, E. L., P. O. G. Persson, J. E. Hare, 2008: A Bulk Turbulent Air–Sea Flux Algorithm for High-Wind, Spray Conditions. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 38, 1581–1596.
  • Andreas, E. L., P. O. G. Persson and J. E. Hare, 2008: A bulk turbulent air–sea flux algorithm for high-wind, spray conditions. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 38, 1581–1596.
  • Bourassa, M. A., 2006: Satellite-based observations of surface turbulent stress during severe weather, Atmosphere - Ocean Interactions, Vol. 2., ed., W. Perrie, Wessex Institute of Technology Press, Southampton, UK, 35 – 52 pp.
  • Bourassa, M. A., D. G. Vincent, and W. L. Wood, 1999: A flux parameterization including the effects of capillary waves and sea state. J. Atmos. Sci., 56, 1123-1139.
  • 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.
  • Dong, S., S. T. Gille, J. Sprintall, and E. J. Fetzer, 2009: Assessing the potential of the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) surface temperature and relative humidity in turbulent heat flux estimates in the Southern Ocean, J. Geophys. Res., submitted.
  • Fairall, C. W., E. F. Bradley, J. E. Hare, A. A. Grachev, and J. B. Edson, 2003: Bulk parameterization of air-sea fluxes: Updates and verification for the COARE algorithm.  J. Clim., 16, 571-591.
  • 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.
  • Kara, A. B., J. Metzger, and M. A. Bourassa, 2007: Ocean Current and Wave Effects on Wind Stress Drag Coefficient and Fluxes over the Global Ocean. Geophys. Res. Letts., 34, L01604, doi:10.1029/2006GL027849.
  • Kara, A. B., A. J. Wallcraft, E.  J. Metzger, H. E. Hurlburt, and C. W. Fairall, 2007: Wind Stress Drag Coefficient over the Global Ocean, J. Climate, 20, 5856-5864.
  • Kubota, M., A. Kano, H. Muramatsu, and H. Tomita, 2003: Intercomparison of various surface latent heat flux fields. J. Climate, 16, 670–678.
  • Large, W. G., and S. Pond, 1981: Open ocean momentum flux measurements in moderate to strong winds. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 11, 324-336.
  • Large, W. G. and S. Pond, 1982: Sensible and latent heat flux measurements over the ocean. J. Phys. Oceanogr.: 12, 464–482.
  • Petersen, G. N. and I. A. Renfrew, 2009: Aircraft-based observations of air-sea fluxes over Denmark Strait and the Irminger Sea during high wind speed conditions, Quarterly J. Royal Meteorol. Soc., doi: 10.1002/qj.355, in press.
  • 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.
  • Smith, S. D., 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.
  • Stammer, D., K. Ueyoshi, W. Large, S. Josey, and C. Wunsch, 2004: Estimating air-sea fluxes of heat, freshwater and momentum through global ocean data assimilation. J. Geophys. Res., 109, doi:10.1029/2003JC002082.
  • Taylor, P., (Ed.), 2000: Final report of the joint WCRP/SCOR Working Group on air-sea fluxes: intercomparison and validation of ocean-atmosphere flux fields, WCRP-112, WMO/TD-No. 1036, World Climate Research Programme, 303 pp.
  • 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.

 

 

Announcements

U.S. CLIVAR Call for New Working Groups (pdf)

U.S. CLIVAR joint call with Ocean Carbon Biogeochemistry Group (OCB) for Working Groups (pdf)

U.S. CLIVAR Summit 2011 presentations online

U.S. CLIVAR Decadal Predictability Working Group publishes paper in BAMS (Feb. 2011, Vol. 92, No. 2)

NCAR Advanced Study Program Summer Colloquium - 6-24 June 2011; Statistical Assessment of Extreme Weather Phenomena under climate Change - presentations online

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Science Tidbits    

26 September 2011: Seeking better answers to climate change, extreme weather

20 September 2011: Earth is losing Arctic sea ice: consequences could be global

17 August 2011: Study blames humans for half of recent Arctic ice melt

9 July 2011: Record south-central drought could continue into 2012, National Weather Service predicts

7 July 2011 - US Climate: The New Normal

10 June 2011 - NASA launches Aquarius

 

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