VALIDATION OF ATMOSPHERIC HEAT BUDGET PARAMETERS IN THE WESTERN INDIAN SECTOR OF THE SOUTHERN OCEAN

• Main Authors: Alvarinho J, M. Sudhakar, R. Ravindra
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Remote sensing; Atmosphere; Databases; Marine; Statistics; Analysis; Comparison; Satellite; India Bay; Indian; Prydz Bay; Southern Ocean; International Polar Year
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.642.8789; http://www.isprs.org/proceedings/XXXVII/congress/8_pdf/3_WG-VIII-3/17.pdf

The work reports validation of numerical weather forecasts (NWF), QuikSCAT-based wind speed and AMSR-E sea surface temperature (SST) for the surface atmospheric boundary layer in the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean under the International Polar Year. The database consists of wind speed, air temp...