Wave spectra with directional aspects from deep water in the tropical Atlantic

Grose, Peter L.; Warsh, K. L.; Garstang, Michael

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“…4). Significant increases in both latent and sensible heat are recorded during the passage of a weak synoptic-scale system near midnight on 20 August (Garstang and Warsh 1970;Warsh et al 1972b).…”

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“…Hosed down and rolled into the shed the task was done. The stability of Triton together with the array of resistance wave staffs, pressure transducer, accelerometers, and inclinometers permitted wave spectra to be calculated (Grose et al 1972a,b;Warsh et al 1972a). These measurements coupled with airflow and ocean currents anticipated the importance of interaction between the surface airflow and ocean waves (Smith 1980;Fairall et al 1996).…”

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“…5). Sea surface temperature was measured by a float mounted thermistor suspended just below the sea surface at the head of the forward boom (Warsh et al 1972b). Analog systems recorded data at 15-min intervals from which hourly average fluxes of latent and sensible heat and momentum were calculated using a wind-dependent drag coefficient (Deacon and Webb 1962).…”

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Fifty years ago the Line Islands Experiment was launched to obtain in situ surface, soundings, and aircraft observations in a convectively active region of the tropical oceans close to the nadir point of the new geosynchronous meteorological satellite. Two related tropical field experiments, in 1968 and 1969, followed in the vicinity of Barbados in the western Atlantic. Component parts of these three field experiments are recalled in this presentation that resonated over the subsequent half century.

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Dispersion relations and wave shapes

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Warsh²,

Garstang³

1972

J. Geophys. Res.

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Wave spectra calculated from 204 observations in the Atlantic trade‐wind region east of Barbados, each observation with average duration of 11 minutes, were analyzed for the slope of the equilibrium region of the spectrum and the dispersion relation. Anomalous dispersion relations were correlated to shallow slopes of the equilibrium range, indicating that waves steeper than third‐order Stokes waves may have contributed to the spectra.

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Relation of sea-air interface energy fluxes to convective activity in the tropical Atlantic Ocean

Warsh¹

1973

J. Geophys. Res.

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Computations of sensible and latent heat fluxes from measurements taken aboard a ship and from a spar buoy east of Barbados in August 1968 are combined with radiation measurements to obtain a sequence of total heat exchange across the sea‐air interface. It is shown that there is a strong correlation between convective activity and latent heat flux. Under moderately depressed convective activity the ocean is estimated to gain heat at a daily average rate as high as 385 ly day−1 (193 w m−2), whereas under extremely enhanced convective activity the ocean is estimated to lose heat at a rate of 275 ly day−1 (138 w m−2) averaged over a few hours.

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Wave spectra with directional aspects from deep water in the tropical Atlantic

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Three Early Tropical Field Experiments

Three Early Tropical Field Experiments

Dispersion relations and wave shapes

Relation of sea-air interface energy fluxes to convective activity in the tropical Atlantic Ocean

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