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Ocean Observation: From Microfluidics to Global Scale
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Towards measuring air-sea interface parameters within an eddy
P-OB-10-S
Zhaohui Chen, Key Laboratory of Physical Oceanography/Institute for Advanced Ocean Studies, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China
Yueqi Zhang* , Key Laboratory of Physical Oceanography/Institute for Advanced Ocean Studies, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China
Presenter Email: zyq@stu.ouc.edu.cn |
| The Kuroshio extension (KE) region has been identified as a key location in the extratropics in the North Pacific where sharp oceanic fronts and energetic mesoscale oceanic eddies induce considerable sea surface temperature (SST) variability, leading to intensive air-sea interaction. Understanding these frontal- and mesoscale air-sea interaction has important implications to improve future climate modelling, prediction and application at the midlatitude. Until very recently, available observations were inadequate to resolve such small-scale dynamical processes in western boundary current regimes, making it difficult to further investigate the frontal- and mesoscale air-sea interaction.
Here we use a new kind low-cost but high-efficiency drifting buoy, which integrates the advantages of Lagrangian drifters and moored buoys, to observe the air-sea parameters like wind, air temperature, air pressure, relative humidity, sea surface temperature, sea surface velocity and other related parameters. This paper will introduce some deployment tests made in KE and the applications in quantifying the air-sea turbulent heat flux.
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