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Multi‐satellite measurements of large diurnal warming events

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Gentemann, Chelle L., Minnett, Peter J., Le Borgne, Pierre, Merchant, Christopher J.·2008·Geophysical Research Letters

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Diurnal warming events between 5 and 7 K, spatially coherent over large areas (∼1000 km), are observed in independent satellite measurements of ocean surface temperature. The majority of the large events occurred in the extra‐tropics. Given sufficient heating (from solar radiation), the location and magnitude of these events appears to be primarily determined by large‐scale wind patterns. The amplitude of the measured diurnal heating scales inversely with the spatial resolution of the different sensors used in this study. These results indicate that predictions of peak diurnal warming using wind speeds with a 25 km spatial resolution available from satellite sensors and those with 50–100 km resolution from Numerical Weather Prediction models may have underestimated warming. Thus, the use of these winds in modeling diurnal effects will be limited in accuracy by both the temporal and spatial resolution of the wind fields.

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  1. Le Borgne, P., G. Legendre, and A. Marsouin (2006), Operational SST retreival from MSG/SEVIRI data, paper presented at The 2006 EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference, Eur. Organ. for the Exploit. of Meteorol. Satell., Helsinki.
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Gentemann, C. L., Minnett, P. J., Le Borgne, P., & Merchant, C. J.
Affiliations
  • Remote Sensing Systems (United States) (US)
  • University of Miami (US)
  • Centre de Météorologie Spatiale Météo‐France Lannion France
  • University of Edinburgh (GB)
Venue
Geophysical Research Letters
Published
2008-11
Volume
35
Issue
22
ISSN
  • 0094-8276 (ISSN-L)
  • 1944-8007
OpenAlex
W2138915816
Cited by
155
References
14
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2.77
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Locations
  • Geophysical Research Letters (publishedVersion)
  • Edinburgh Research Explorer (University of Edinburgh) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Funders
Natural Environment Research Council (NE/D011582/1)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Oceanography › Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Climate variability and models
Keywords
sea surface temperature, diurnal heating, solar radiation, spatial resolution, numerical weather prediction

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