Sea surface wind perturbations over the Kashevarov Bank of the Okhotsk Sea: a satellite study
Sea surface wind perturbations over sea surface temperature (SST) cold anomalies over the Kashevarov Bank (KB) of the Okhotsk Sea are analyzed using satellite (AMSR-E and QuikSCAT) data during the summer-autumn period of 2006–2009. It is shown, that frequency of cases of wind speed decreasing ov...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2011-02-01
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| Series: | Annales Geophysicae |
| Online Access: | https://www.ann-geophys.net/29/393/2011/angeo-29-393-2011.pdf |
| Summary: | Sea surface wind perturbations over sea surface temperature (SST) cold
anomalies over the Kashevarov Bank (KB) of the Okhotsk Sea are analyzed
using satellite (AMSR-E and QuikSCAT) data during the summer-autumn period
of 2006–2009. It is shown, that frequency of cases of wind speed decreasing
over a cold spot in August–September reaches up to 67%. In the cold spot
center SST cold anomalies reached 10.5 °C and wind speed lowered down to
~7 m s<sup>−1</sup> relative its value on the periphery. The wind difference
between a periphery and a centre of the cold spot is proportional to SST
difference with the correlations 0.5 for daily satellite passes data, 0.66
for 3-day mean data and 0.9 for monthly ones. For all types of data the
coefficient of proportionality consists of ~0.3 m s<sup>−1</sup> on 1 °C. |
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| ISSN: | 0992-7689 1432-0576 |