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| Goddijn-murphy, Lonneke; Woolf, David; Chapron, Bertrand; Queffeulou, Pierre. |
| Air-sea gas exchange is affected by sea surface roughness and a previous study shows a significant relation between Ku-band backscattering from satellite altimeters and field estimates of gas transfer velocity, K. Recently C-band backscatter data were made available for altimeters on board the JASON-1 and JASON-2 satellites. In this paper we used experimental data from the same cruises to show that using the difference between the Ku-band and C-band signals to estimate sea surface roughness, and thus reducing the contribution from longer waves, improved the K estimates. This is consistent with the theory that gas transfer is largely controlled by short capillary-gravity waves. For satellite data closer than 2 hr and 0.5 degrees from the K sample stations,... |
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Palavras-chave: Air-sea gas transfer; Satellite altimetry; DMS. |
| Ano: 2013 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00174/28564/26980.pdf |
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