Airborne imagery of ocean mixed-layer convective patterns |
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| Authors: | George O. Marmorino Geoffrey B. Smith Jakov V. Toporkov Mark A. Sletten Dragana Perkovic Stephen J. Frasier |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Remote Sensing Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375, USA;2. Microwave Remote Sensing Laboratory, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA |
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| 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. |
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