HR: 08:30h
AN: H31A-01 INVITED     [Abstracts]
TI: SEAFLUX: Status and Prospects
AU: * Curry, J
EM: curryja@eas.gatech.edu
AF: Georgia Institute of Technology, 311 Ferst Dr, Atlanta, GA 30332-0340 United States
AB: Determination of the ocean evaporative flux is critical for the global water and energy cycle and the partitioning of heat transport between the ocean and atmosphere. Further, high-resolution surface fluxes over the global ocean are needed to evaluate coupled atmosphere-ocean models and weather forecasting models, provide surface forcing for ocean models, understand the regional and temporal variations of the exchange of heat between the atmosphere and ocean, and provide a large-scale context for field experiments. Under the auspices of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) Global Energy and Water Experiment (GEWEX) Radiation Panel, the SEAFLUX Project has guiding the production and evaluation of high-resolution satellite-based data sets of surface turbulent fluxes over the global oceans. An overview will be given of progress to date, including outstanding challenges. Prospects for improvements using new (exisiting and planned) satellite sensors will be presented. Proposed strategies for evaluating new flux products will be described.
DE: 4275 Remote sensing and electromagnetic processes (0689)
DE: 4504 Air/sea interactions (0312)
SC: Hydrology [H]
MN: 2005 Joint Assembly