TY - JOUR
T1 - Impact of diurnally-varying skin temperature on surface fluxes over the tropical Pacific
AU - Zeng, Xubin
AU - Dickinson, Robert E.
PY - 1998/5/1
Y1 - 1998/5/1
N2 - Multi-year hourly data of air temperature, wind speed, and humidity from the TOGA TAO moored buoys over the tropical Pacific along with our derived hourly sea surface skin temperature data are analyzed to show that there are substantial diurnal variations of monthly averaged surface fluxes of latent heat, sensible heat, and momentum (eg, one-third of the cases show monthly averaged latent heat diurnal amplitudes greater than 20 Wm-2). Daily or monthly average surface temperatures cannot provide such flux variations, suggesting that numerical modeling may require the inclusion of the diurnal variation of surface skin temperature.
AB - Multi-year hourly data of air temperature, wind speed, and humidity from the TOGA TAO moored buoys over the tropical Pacific along with our derived hourly sea surface skin temperature data are analyzed to show that there are substantial diurnal variations of monthly averaged surface fluxes of latent heat, sensible heat, and momentum (eg, one-third of the cases show monthly averaged latent heat diurnal amplitudes greater than 20 Wm-2). Daily or monthly average surface temperatures cannot provide such flux variations, suggesting that numerical modeling may require the inclusion of the diurnal variation of surface skin temperature.
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U2 - 10.1029/98GL51097
DO - 10.1029/98GL51097
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:3543113091
SN - 0094-8276
VL - 25
SP - 1411
EP - 1414
JO - Geophysical Research Letters
JF - Geophysical Research Letters
IS - 9
ER -