Gas transfer velocities (QuikSCAT normalized radar backscatter) from NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown cruise RB-08-02 in the Southwest Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean near South Georgia Island in 2008 (SO_GasEx project)

• Main Authors: Dr David M. Glover, Alisdair Tullo
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO) 2008
• Subjects: oceans; South Georgia Island; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/sha256:30243625d8a76fb43840d3d9d4fa7590bfe289be1851b3e7f1206f073d8a9a79

<p>SO-GasEx Gas transfer velocities (QuikSCAT normalized radar backscatter)</p> <p>Gas transfer velocities (normalized to Sc=660) derived from QuikSCAT normalized radar backscatter (QSk1p4p1 data set)</p> <p>Each day's worth of data has (as columns):<br /> date, time, lon, lat, u, v, k, num_k, k46, num_k46, k54, num_k54, kLM, kW, kWM, kN<br /> <br /> u and v are the east-west and north-south U10 wind velocities for that time and location.<br /> k is the Glover radar-based estimate for transfer velocity.<br /> num_* refers to the number of individual QuikSCAT radar returns used.<br /> 46 and 54 refer to the inner and outer dual, conically scanning radar pencil beams.<br /> <br /> kLM, kW, kWM, and kN refer to transfer velocities derived from QuikSCAT wind speeds [sqrt(u2+v2)]<br /> using Liss-Merlivat'86, Wanninkhof'92, Wanninkhof and McGillis'99, and Nightingale'00 respectively.<br /> <br /> The data are spatially distributed in Wind Vector Cells (WVC) of roughly 25 km2.<br /> There are 4 to 6 views of at least part of the SO GasEx area each day<br /> <br /> For these data, the area is defined as 30-50&deg; W, 40-60&deg; S.<br /> Potentially, there are 6400 data points per time/date data set.<br /> <br /> The times are given in UTC.</p>