• Title of article

    Airborne imagery of ocean mixed-layer convective patterns

  • Author/Authors

    Marmorino، نويسنده , , George O. and Smith، نويسنده , , Geoffrey B. and Toporkov، نويسنده , , Jakov V. and Sletten، نويسنده , , Mark A. and Perkovic، نويسنده , , Dragana and Frasier، نويسنده , , Stephen J.، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2009
  • Pages
    7
  • From page
    435
  • To page
    441
  • Abstract
    Airborne infrared and synthetic aperture radar imagery collected over the Gulf Stream are used to examine the surface patterns of small-scale thermal convection and wind-driven Langmuir circulation. These patterns have a thermal contrast of ∼0.25 °C, which is roughly an order of magnitude larger than predicted by large-eddy simulations but consistent with the effect on surface temperature of surfactant accumulations induced by mixed-layer eddies.
  • Keywords
    Thermal convection , Langmuir circulation , surface mixed layer , sea-surface temperature , Cool skin , Remote sensing , Infrared imagery , synthetic aperture radar , surfactant
  • Journal title
    Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers
  • Serial Year
    2009
  • Journal title
    Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers
  • Record number

    2308688