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| Rascle, Nicolas; Nouguier, Frederic; Chapron, Bertrand; Ocampo-torres, Francisco J.. |
| High-resolution satellite images of the ocean surface in and around the sunglint often provide unique observations of sub-mesoscale upper ocean surface processes. Local anomalies of wind, waves, currents or surfactants appear on the images as local anomalies of brightness. A quantitative interpretation of those brightness anomalies must relate them to slope properties of the wave field, which are to the lowest order described by the mean square slope (mss). The prevailing paradigm for such interpretation is that of the critical zenith angle. It states that, for sub-critical zenith view angle, brightness and mss anomalies have opposite signs, and this defines the so-called inversion region. This prevailing paradigm implicitly builds on the assumption that... |
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Palavras-chave: Sea surface roughness; Surface current gradients; Submesoscale turbulence; Wave-current interaction; Surfactants; Sun glint imagery; SAR images; Multi-angle radiometers; Surface slope distribution; Mean square slope. |
| Ano: 2018 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00448/55964/57498.pdf |
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| Rascle, Nicolas; Molemaker, Jeroen; Marie, Louis; Nouguier, Frederic; Chapron, Bertrand; Lund, Bjorn; Mouche, Alexis. |
| Fine scale current gradients at the ocean surface can be observed by sea surface roughness. More specifically, directional surface roughness anomalies are related to the different horizontal current gradient components. This paper reports results from a dedicated experiment during the LASER (LAgrangian Submesoscale ExpeRiment) drifter deployment. A very sharp front, 50 m wide, is detected simultaneously in drifter trajectories, sea surface temperature and sea surface roughness. A new observational method is applied, using sun glitter reflections during multiple airplane passes to reconstruct the multi-angle roughness anomaly. This multi-angle anomaly is consistent with wave-current interactions over a front, including both cross-front convergence and... |
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Palavras-chave: Sea surface roughness; Surface current; Remote sensing; Sun glitter; High resolution; Oceanic fronts. |
| Ano: 2017 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00386/49767/50301.pdf |
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| Rascle, Nicolas; Chapron, Bertrand; Molemaker, Jeroen; Nouguier, Frederic; Ocampo‐torres, Francisco J.; Osuna Cañedo, J. Pedro; Marié, Louis; Lund, Björn; Horstmann, Jochen. |
| Sea surface roughness is affected by surface current gradients, which provides a means of monitoring from satellite sharp oceanic fronts. This paper is the second report of an experiment designed to compare observations of sea surface roughness and surface currents at an unprecedented accuracy, owing to the conjunction of numerous deployed drifters and roughness instruments. About 200 drifters sampled a thin 10~km elongated submesoscale front, also monitored by a high density of roughness instruments: satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar, satellite and airborne multi‐angle sunglint radiometers. The first paper focused on the retrieval of the current gradient direction (convergence and cyclonic vorticity) at the front, using roughness observations at multiple... |
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Palavras-chave: Sea surface roughness; Submesoscale current; Fine-scale current; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Sunglint Sun glitter; Ocean front. |
| Ano: 2020 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00636/74788/75035.pdf |
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