HR: 14:00h
AN: A23E-01    [Abstracts]
TI: SeaFlux: New Methods in Satellite-Derived Air Sea Fluxes
AU: * Clayson, C A
EM: clayson@met.fsu.edu
AF: Florida State University, Department of Meteorology 404 Love Building, Tallahassee, FL 32311, United States
AB: In this talk I will present an overview of the SeaFlux program and its history and goals. A description of the SeaFlux Intercomparison Project and results will be given. Methods and comparisons of satellite-derived air-sea fluxes with in situ research vessels, buoys, and numerical weather prediction models will be described. New methodologies that are being explored with respect to improved global high-resolution air-sea fluxes will be detailed, including improved surface flux models, improved sea surface temperature fields, and possibilities for improved fluxes in coastal regions and at high wind speed regimes will be explored. A focus will be placed on diurnal variability of fluxes, and the effects of such variability on convection over the tropical Pacific as shown by cloud-resolving models will be demonstrated.
DE: 3339 Ocean/atmosphere interactions (0312, 4504)
DE: 3360 Remote sensing
DE: 4227 Diurnal, seasonal, and annual cycles (0438)
DE: 4504 Air/sea interactions (0312, 3339)
SC: Atmospheric Sciences [A]
MN: 2007 Joint Assembly