Integration of Satellite and Surface Data Using a Radiative–Convective Oceanic Boundary-Layer Model
- 1 April 1992
- journal article
- Published by American Meteorological Society in Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology
- Vol. 31 (4) , 340-350
- https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0450(1992)031<0340:iosasd>2.0.co;2
Abstract
A mixing-line boundary-layer model is used to retrieve cloud-top height from satellite-derived cloud-top temperature using 700-hPa National Meteorological Center (NMC) analyses and the Comprehensive Ocean and Atmosphere Data Set (COADS) surface data as supporting datasets. Results are compared with the fixed-lapse-rate method of retrieving boundary-layer depth from sea surface temperatures (SST) and cloud-top temperatures. A radiative-convective equilibrium boundary-layer model is used to retrieve boundary-layer structure given SST and surface wind, satellite cloud-top temperatures and cloud fraction, and the 700-hPa NMC thermodynamic analyses. Good agreement is found between the COADS data and the model solutions for low-level temperature and moisture. This suggests that equilibrium boundary-layer models may be of use over remote oceans in the retrieval of boundary-layer structure.Keywords
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