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| Lambaerts, J.; Lapeyre, Guillaume; Plougonven, R.; Klein, Patrice. |
| Recent studies have revealed that strong sea surface temperature (SST) fronts, on the scale of a Western Boundary Current, significantly affect not just the Marine Boundary Layer but the entire troposphere. This has aroused renewed interest in air-sea interactions. The present study investigates the atmospheric response to fixed SST anomalies associated with mesoscale oceanic eddies and submesoscale filaments, using idealized simulations. Our main result is that in weak wind conditions, the vertical velocity in the planetary boundary layer (PBL) is linearly proportional to the SST Laplacian. This is established by a quantitative analysis in the spatial space as well as in the spectral space. Comparing the responses to two different SST fields shows that... |
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Palavras-chave: Air-sea interactions; Boundary layer; Sea surface temperature. |
| Ano: 2013 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00169/28047/26247.pdf |
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