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Balance of surface, advective and up-welling heat fluxes in the Gulf of Aden

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Title Balance of surface, advective and up-welling heat fluxes in the Gulf of Aden
 
Creator Abualanaja, Yasser O.
Ahmad, Fazal
Al-mtairi, Nwaf A.
 
Subject Gulf of Aden
Red Sea
Surface heat fluxes
Advective heat transport
 
Description 42-47
Based
on International Comprehensive Ocean Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS), monthly
summary groups (1960-2008), covering 1o boxes in the Gulf of Aden, the surface advective and up-welled heat
fluxes are calculated. Annual averages of evaporative, net long wave radiation
and sensible heat fluxes are respectively 143, 55 and 2 W/m2. Annual average of absorbed solar radiations at the
sea surface based on the Smithsonian formula is 249 W/m2. Advective heat transport to the Red Sea from Gulf of
Aden at Bab-el-Mandab
Strait is 35 W/m2 giving a surplus of 14 W/m2. Compared to the available recorded solar radiations
it seems that the Smithsonian formula over-estimates the incoming solar
radiations perhaps because of the neglect of aerosols. Up-welled heat flux
during the southwest monsoon is 1.0 × 1013 W.
 
Date 2011-03-29T07:15:46Z
2011-03-29T07:15:46Z
2011-02
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1033 (Online); 0379-5136 (Print)
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/11367
 
Language en_US
 
Rights CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India
 
Publisher NISCAIR-CSIR, India
 
Source IJMS Vol.40(1) [February 2011]