Attribution of twentieth century temperature change to natural and anthropogenic causes
CLIMATE DYNAMICS 17:1 (2001) 1-21
Identifying signals from intermittent low-frequency behaving systems
TELLUS SERIES A-DYNAMIC METEOROLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY 53:4 (2001) 469-480
The influence of subseasonal wind variability on Tropical Instability Waves in the Pacific
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 28:10 (2001) 2041-2044
Direct observations of skin-bulk SST variability
Geophysical Research Letters 27:8 (2000) 1171-1174
Abstract:
Skin sea-surface temperatures from the first Along Track Scanning Radiometer (ATSR) are compared with coincident bulk temperatures from the Tropical Atmosphere Ocean (TAO) moored buoy array in the equatorial Pacific Ocean. The response of the skin-bulk sea-surface temperature difference (ΔT) to variations in wind speed and surface heat flux is examined. The use of remotely-sensed skin temperatures for this purpose is enabled by ATSR's unique design which permits the independent retrieval of ocean skin temperature to an accuracy of 0.3 K. For the four-year period considered (August 1991-August 1995), almost 6000 coincident skin and bulk sea surface temperature (SST) measurements were available; at night, the mean value of ΔT is -0.20 ± 0.46K, with a daytime mean value of +0.05 ± 0.51K. ΔT is found to depend on both net heat flux and local wind speed as predicted by the Saunders [1967] model and other formulations, and an estimate of the Saunders λ parameter is obtained.Implications of changes in the Northern Hemisphere circulation for the detection of anthropogenic climate change
Geophysical Research Letters 27:7 (2000) 993-996