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View article: The Effect of Water Vapor and Solar Zenith Angle on Oceanic Diurnal Warming
The Effect of Water Vapor and Solar Zenith Angle on Oceanic Diurnal Warming Open
Oceanic diurnal warm layers have been extensively studied over the years due to their important role in a variety of geophysical disciplines. Much of this research has been dedicated to the development of predictive models of varying compl…
View article: Evaluation of Modeled Diurnal Warming Estimates for Application to Producing Sea Surface Temperature Analyses
Evaluation of Modeled Diurnal Warming Estimates for Application to Producing Sea Surface Temperature Analyses Open
Accurate knowledge of the amount of diurnal warming present in sea surface temperature (SST) observations at different times and effective depths is important for multiple applications including the production of blended SST analyses. This…
View article: Examining the Consistency of Sea Surface Temperature and Sea Ice Concentration in Arctic Satellite Products
Examining the Consistency of Sea Surface Temperature and Sea Ice Concentration in Arctic Satellite Products Open
Available observations and a theoretical simulation are used to explore the consistency and relationship between sea surface temperature (SST) and sea ice concentration (SIC) within open-ocean-sea ice mixed satellite pixels as a function o…
View article: 2022 Arctic Saildrone Cruise Report
2022 Arctic Saildrone Cruise Report Open
Saildrone is a wind and solar powered unmanned surface vehicle (USV) capable of long distance deployments lasting up to 12 months and providing high quality, near real-time, multivariate surface ocean and atmospheric observations w…
View article: 2021 Arctic Saildrone Cruise Report
2021 Arctic Saildrone Cruise Report Open
Two Saildrone vehicles departed from Dutch Harbor, Alaska on a 90-day cruise per vehicle. Scientific data sampling occurred from 6 July to 20 September 2021, focused primarily on the Chukchi Sea. The science sampling started once the vehic…
View article: 2021 Arctic Saildrone Cruise Report
2021 Arctic Saildrone Cruise Report Open
Saildrone is a wind and solar powered unmanned surface vehicle (USV) capable of long distance deployments lasting up to 12 months and providing high quality, near real-time, multivariate surface ocean and atmospheric observations w…
View article: 2021 Arctic Saildrone Cruise Report
2021 Arctic Saildrone Cruise Report Open
Two Saildrone vehicles departed from Dutch Harbor, Alaska on a 90-day cruise per vehicle. Scientific data sampling occurred from 6 July to 20 September 2021, focused primarily on the Chukchi Sea. The science sampling started once the vehic…
View article: Comparison of GHRSST SST Analysis in the Arctic Ocean and Alaskan Coastal Waters Using Saildrones
Comparison of GHRSST SST Analysis in the Arctic Ocean and Alaskan Coastal Waters Using Saildrones Open
There is high demand for complete satellite SST maps (or L4 SST analyses) of the Arctic regions to monitor the rapid environmental changes occurring at high latitudes. Although there are a plethora of L4 SST products to choose from, satell…
View article: Assessment of Extreme Diurnal Warming in Operational Geosynchronous Satellite Sea Surface Temperature Products
Assessment of Extreme Diurnal Warming in Operational Geosynchronous Satellite Sea Surface Temperature Products Open
We evaluate the reliability and basic characteristics of observations of extreme DW events from current operational geostationary satellite sea surface temperature (SST) products through examination of three months of diurnal warming (DW) …
View article: 2019 Arctic Saildrone Cruise Report
2019 Arctic Saildrone Cruise Report Open
The Saildrone vehicles collected data on a 150-day cruise from Dutch Harbor, Alaska, within the Bering and Chukchi Seas to the ice edge and back during 15 May 2019 to 11 October 2019. Scientific objectives include collecting upper ocean te…
View article: CHARACTERIZING EXTREME DIURNAL WARMING IN SATELLITE-DERIVED OPERATIONAL SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE PRODUCTS
CHARACTERIZING EXTREME DIURNAL WARMING IN SATELLITE-DERIVED OPERATIONAL SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE PRODUCTS Open
Poster presented at the 20th GHRSST science meeting (XX), Frascati, Italy, June 3 - 7, 2019.
View article: Subpixel variability and quality assessment of satellite sea surface temperature data using a novel High Resolution Multistage Spectral Interpolation (HRMSI) technique
Subpixel variability and quality assessment of satellite sea surface temperature data using a novel High Resolution Multistage Spectral Interpolation (HRMSI) technique Open
A novel interpolation technique is applied to assessment of the quality of sea surface temperature (SST) observations and quantitative analysis of the subpixel variability within satellite footprints of different size. Using retrieved sate…
View article: Submesoscale Sea Surface Temperature Variability from UAV and Satellite Measurements
Submesoscale Sea Surface Temperature Variability from UAV and Satellite Measurements Open
Earlier studies of spatial variability in sea surface temperature (SST) using ship-based radiometric data suggested that variability at scales smaller than 1 km is significant and affects the perceived uncertainty of satellite-derived SSTs…