Publication Date:
2019-07-13
Description:
Mesoscale convective cold pools are known to alter the turbulent air-sea fluxes in the regions of active convection such as maritime tropics. Satellite-based Ocean Vector Wind instruments have proven to be useful in observing these mesoscale outflows corresponding to convective cold pools. A new storm-centric, tensor-based wind-gradient identification algorithm identifies gradients associated with convective cold pools and other boundaries such as land-sea breeze fronts. We term these as Gradient Features or GFs; analyzed over tropical oceans (2007-2018) using horizontal winds from Advanced Scatterometer (ASCAT-A).
Keywords:
Geosciences (General)
Type:
MSFC-E-DAA-TN68971
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International Ocean Vector Winds Science Team Meeting; May 29, 2019 - May 31, 2019; Portland, ME; United States
Format:
application/pdf
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