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Monsoonal reversal of remote sensing biases in latent heat flux over eastern Arabian Sea

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Title Monsoonal reversal of remote sensing biases in latent heat flux over eastern Arabian Sea
 
Creator Muraleedharan, P.M.
Pankajakshan, T.
Sathe, P.V.
Murty, V.S.N.
Santosh, K.R.
 
Subject Latent Heat Flux
Air-sea Interaction
Indian Ocean
Air-sea Interaction
 
Description The Arabian Sea is a unique basin where a number of atmospheric and oceanographic processes occur due to the contrasting climatic conditions, which it experiences. The drastic monsoonal variability occurring in the boundary layer adversely affects the quality of remote sensing data and derived products. Comparisons of satellitebased estimate of Latent Heat Flux (LHF) with in situ values demonstrate the nature and extent of such variabilities. Mean satellite fluxes underestimate in situ values during summer (July to September) and overestimate them during fall (October to November). The underestimation peaked for high LHF values and disappeared for low LHF during summer. During fall, maximum over-estimation occurred when the LHF values were relatively low and it disappeared for higher LHF. These observations closely followed the behavior of satellite biases of sea surface temperature (SST) and wind speed (WS) during the two contrasting periods. Biases of SST and WS indicated opposite trends on either side of a threshold of 28.5 °C and 5 m/s, respectively.
 
Date 2006-12-01T04:41:36Z
2006-12-01T04:41:36Z
2006
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Geophysical Research Letters, vol.33, 5p.
http://drs.nio.org/drs/handle/2264/516
 
Language en
 
Rights An edited version of this paper was published by AGU. Copyright [2006] AGU
 
Format 264843 bytes
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Publisher American Geophysical Union