Impacts of Saharan Mineral Dust on Air-Sea Interaction over North Atlantic Ocean Using a Fully Coupled Regional Model.

• Main Authors: Chen, Shu-Hua, Huang, Chu-Chun, Kuo, Yi-Chun, Tseng, Yu-Heng, Gu, Yu, Earl, Kenneth, Chen, Chih-Ying, Choi, Yonghan, Liou, Kuo-Nan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2021
• Subjects: African dust; COAWST; air‐sea interaction; dust‐cloud‐radiation interaction; mixed layer depth; sea surface temperature; surface heat fluxes; wind stress curl; air‐ sea interaction; dust‐ cloud‐ radiation interaction; Atmospheric Sciences; Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience; Curl; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5fc5j4n2

This study examines the modifications of air-sea coupling processes by dust-radiation-cloud interactions over the North Atlantic Ocean using a high-resolution coupled atmosphere-wave-ocean-dust (AWOD) regional model. The dust-induced mechanisms that are responsible for changes of sea surface tempera...