Remote sensing of the coastal marine atmospheric boundary layer

Coastal region marine atmospheric boundary layer (MABL) properties derived from satellite data are compared with coastal in situ measured conditions. A multispectral approach using visible and IR data is being tested to indirectly estimate important variables such as depth of the MABL. In situ and ground-based remote data were obtained from ship mounted systems and from shoreline stations. In examined cases, remotely sensed information yields reasonable assessments of the height of the top of the boundary layer as well as of conditions immediately above the surface. Remote data describe high resolution horizontal/temporal variations, important in the coastal but not described by point measured in situ data