Effect of Waves and Wave Breaking on IR SST (321sr) and Modulation of Skin Temperature by Ocean Swell Waves (AASERT).

摘要

This research is to develop infrared remote sensing techniques to quantify exchange processes at the airsea interface utilizing similarity scaling for the fluxes of heat, gas, and momentum. The primary focus is to understand the spatial and temporal evolution of the ocean thermal boundary layer through infrared detection of the bulk-skin temperature difference. We also address the development of laboratory and in situ calibration techniques, which are essential to making measurements of useful accuracy. The objectives for FY98 were (1) to develop infrared imaging techniques to investigate microscale wave breaking and (2) utilize those techniques to quantify the role of microscale wave breaking in surface roughness modulation at scales relevant to infrared and microwave measurements.