Measuring Winds From Space to Reduce the Uncertainty in the Southern Ocean Carbon Fluxes: Science Requirements and Proposed Mission
Strong winds in Southern Ocean storms drive air-sea carbon and heat fluxes. These fluxes are integral to the global climate system and the wind speeds that drive them are increasing. The current scatterometer constellation measuring vector winds remotely undersamples these storms and the higher wind...
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ftolddominionuni:oai:digitalcommons.odu.edu:ccpo_pubs-1389 2023-12-17T10:50:14+01:00 Measuring Winds From Space to Reduce the Uncertainty in the Southern Ocean Carbon Fluxes: Science Requirements and Proposed Mission Russell, Joellen L. Long, David G. Chang, Paul Cowell, Madeline Curchitser, Enrique Dinniman, Michael S. Fellows, Charles Goodman, Paul Hofmann, Eileen Jelenak, Zorana Klinck, John Krasting, John P. Lovenduski, Nicole Suzanne Lofverstrom, Marcus Mazloff, Matthew R. Petroy, Shelley Polit, Anjani Rodriguez, Ernesto Schofield, Oscar Stoffelen, Ad Stouffer, Ronald J. Wanninkhof, Rik Weimer, Carl Zeng, Xubin 2021-01-01T08:00:00Z application/pdf https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/ccpo_pubs/385 https://doi.org/10.1002/essoar.10506276.1 https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/context/ccpo_pubs/article/1389/viewcontent/Dinniman_2021_MeasuringWindsfromSpacetoReduceOCR.pdf unknown ODU Digital Commons https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/ccpo_pubs/385 doi:10.1002/essoar.10506276.1 https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/context/ccpo_pubs/article/1389/viewcontent/Dinniman_2021_MeasuringWindsfromSpacetoReduceOCR.pdf © 2021 The Authors. Published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License . CCPO Publications Observing system design Surface vector winds Scatterometer Southern Ocean Air-sea carbon flux Observing constellation Uncertainty in Southern Ocean carbon budget Wind speed strength Climate Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology article 2021 ftolddominionuni https://doi.org/10.1002/essoar.10506276.1 2023-11-20T19:09:45Z Strong winds in Southern Ocean storms drive air-sea carbon and heat fluxes. These fluxes are integral to the global climate system and the wind speeds that drive them are increasing. The current scatterometer constellation measuring vector winds remotely undersamples these storms and the higher winds within them, leading to potentially large biases in Southern Ocean wind reanalyses and the fluxes that derive from them. This observing system design study addresses these issues in two ways. First, we describe an addition to the scatterometer constellation, called Southern Ocean Storms -- Zephyr, to increase the frequency of independent observations, better constraining high winds. Second, we show that potential reanalysis wind biases over the Southern Ocean lead to uncertainty over the sign of the net winter carbon flux. More frequent independent observations per day will capture these higher winds and reduce the uncertainty in estimates of the global carbon and heat budgets. Article in Journal/Newspaper Southern Ocean Old Dominion University: ODU Digital Commons Southern Ocean |
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Observing system design Surface vector winds Scatterometer Southern Ocean Air-sea carbon flux Observing constellation Uncertainty in Southern Ocean carbon budget Wind speed strength Climate Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology Russell, Joellen L. Long, David G. Chang, Paul Cowell, Madeline Curchitser, Enrique Dinniman, Michael S. Fellows, Charles Goodman, Paul Hofmann, Eileen Jelenak, Zorana Klinck, John Krasting, John P. Lovenduski, Nicole Suzanne Lofverstrom, Marcus Mazloff, Matthew R. Petroy, Shelley Polit, Anjani Rodriguez, Ernesto Schofield, Oscar Stoffelen, Ad Stouffer, Ronald J. Wanninkhof, Rik Weimer, Carl Zeng, Xubin Measuring Winds From Space to Reduce the Uncertainty in the Southern Ocean Carbon Fluxes: Science Requirements and Proposed Mission |
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Observing system design Surface vector winds Scatterometer Southern Ocean Air-sea carbon flux Observing constellation Uncertainty in Southern Ocean carbon budget Wind speed strength Climate Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology |
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Strong winds in Southern Ocean storms drive air-sea carbon and heat fluxes. These fluxes are integral to the global climate system and the wind speeds that drive them are increasing. The current scatterometer constellation measuring vector winds remotely undersamples these storms and the higher winds within them, leading to potentially large biases in Southern Ocean wind reanalyses and the fluxes that derive from them. This observing system design study addresses these issues in two ways. First, we describe an addition to the scatterometer constellation, called Southern Ocean Storms -- Zephyr, to increase the frequency of independent observations, better constraining high winds. Second, we show that potential reanalysis wind biases over the Southern Ocean lead to uncertainty over the sign of the net winter carbon flux. More frequent independent observations per day will capture these higher winds and reduce the uncertainty in estimates of the global carbon and heat budgets. |
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Russell, Joellen L. Long, David G. Chang, Paul Cowell, Madeline Curchitser, Enrique Dinniman, Michael S. Fellows, Charles Goodman, Paul Hofmann, Eileen Jelenak, Zorana Klinck, John Krasting, John P. Lovenduski, Nicole Suzanne Lofverstrom, Marcus Mazloff, Matthew R. Petroy, Shelley Polit, Anjani Rodriguez, Ernesto Schofield, Oscar Stoffelen, Ad Stouffer, Ronald J. Wanninkhof, Rik Weimer, Carl Zeng, Xubin |
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Russell, Joellen L. Long, David G. Chang, Paul Cowell, Madeline Curchitser, Enrique Dinniman, Michael S. Fellows, Charles Goodman, Paul Hofmann, Eileen Jelenak, Zorana Klinck, John Krasting, John P. Lovenduski, Nicole Suzanne Lofverstrom, Marcus Mazloff, Matthew R. Petroy, Shelley Polit, Anjani Rodriguez, Ernesto Schofield, Oscar Stoffelen, Ad Stouffer, Ronald J. Wanninkhof, Rik Weimer, Carl Zeng, Xubin |
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Measuring Winds From Space to Reduce the Uncertainty in the Southern Ocean Carbon Fluxes: Science Requirements and Proposed Mission |
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Measuring Winds From Space to Reduce the Uncertainty in the Southern Ocean Carbon Fluxes: Science Requirements and Proposed Mission |
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Measuring Winds From Space to Reduce the Uncertainty in the Southern Ocean Carbon Fluxes: Science Requirements and Proposed Mission |
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Measuring Winds From Space to Reduce the Uncertainty in the Southern Ocean Carbon Fluxes: Science Requirements and Proposed Mission |
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Measuring Winds From Space to Reduce the Uncertainty in the Southern Ocean Carbon Fluxes: Science Requirements and Proposed Mission |
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measuring winds from space to reduce the uncertainty in the southern ocean carbon fluxes: science requirements and proposed mission |
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© 2021 The Authors. Published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License . |
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