HR: 12:05h
AN: A32B-08    [Abstracts]
TI: Shipboard Investigation of Air-sea Interaction and Cloud Processes in the VOCALS Stratocumulus Region
AU: * Fairall, C W
EM: chris.fairall@noaa.gov
AF: NOAA Earth Systems Research Laboratory, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80305, United States
AU: Wolfe, D E
EM: daniel.wolfe@noaa.gov
AF: NOAA Earth Systems Research Laboratory, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80305, United States
AU: Bariteau, L
EM: ludovic.bariteau@noaa.gov
AF: NOAA Earth Systems Research Laboratory, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80305, United States
AU: Bariteau, L
EM: ludovic.bariteau@noaa.gov
AF: Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80303, United States
AU: Pezoa, S
EM: sergio.pezoa@noaa.gov
AF: NOAA Earth Systems Research Laboratory, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80305, United States
AU: Serpetzoglou, E
EM: eserpetzoglou@rsmas.miami.edu
AF: Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33149, United States
AU: Ghate, V
EM: vghate@rsmas.miami.edu
AF: Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33149, United States
AU: DeSoeke, S
EM: Simon.deSzoeke@noaa.gov
AF: NOAA Earth Systems Research Laboratory, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80305, United States
AU: Zuidema, P
EM: pzuidema@rsmas.miami.edu
AF: Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33149, United States
AB: NOAA ESRL and University of Miami have cooperated with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) for series of research cruises to the stratocumulus region of Peru/Chile as part of NOAA's PACS/EPIC/VOCALS program. Ship-based measurements have taken in October of 2001, 2005, and 2006, November 2003, and December 2004, at the WHOI ocean reference buoy at 20 S 85 W during the annual cruise to service the buoy. The goal of this work is to improve understanding of coupled air-sea processes in subtropical stratocumulus regions and to gather statistics on flux, boundary layer, and cloud properties to promote the evaluation of models and satellite data products. In this paper we will present a synthesis of results from all five cruises emphasizing a consensus of the direct covariance flux data and an analysis of the diurnal cycle of cloud properties.
UR: http:www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/psd3/air-sea/
DE: 3311 Clouds and aerosols
DE: 3339 Ocean/atmosphere interactions (0312, 4504)
DE: 3379 Turbulence (4490)
DE: 4247 Marine meteorology
SC: Atmospheric Sciences [A]
MN: 2007 Joint Assembly