Integrated Observations of Global Surface Winds, Currents, and Waves: Requirements and Challenges for the Next Decade
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Date | 2019-07 | ||||||||
Language | English | ||||||||
Author(s) | Villas Bôas Ana B.1, Ardhuin Fabrice18, Ayet Alex2, 3, Bourassa Mark A.4, Brandt Peter5, 6, Chapron Bertrand2, Cornuelle Bruce D.1, Farrar J. T.7, Fewings Melanie R.8, Fox-Kemper Baylor9, Gille Sarah T.1, Gommenginger Christine10, Heimbach Patrick11, Hell Momme C.1, Li Qing9, Mazloff Matthew R.1, Merrifield Sophia T.1, Mouche Alexis2, Rio 12, Rodriguez Ernesto13, Shutler Jamie D.14, Subramanian Aneesh C.1, Terrill Eric J.1, Tsamados Michel15, Ubelmann Clement16, Van Sebille Erik17 | ||||||||
Affiliation(s) | 1 : Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States 2 : Laboratoire d'Océanographie Physique et Spatiale, Univ. Brest, CNRS, IRD, Ifremer, IUEM, Brest, France 3 : LMD/IPSL, École Normale Supérieure, PSL Research University, Paris, France 4 : COAPS, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States 5 : GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany 6 : Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Kiel, Germany 7 : Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States 8 : College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States 9 : Los Alamos National Laboratory (DOE), Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States 10 : National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom 11 : Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas, Austin, TX, United States 12 : Department of Earth Observation Projects, European Space Agency, Paris, France 13 : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States 14 : Centre for Geography and Environmental Science, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom 15 : Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling, Earth Sciences, University College London, London, United Kingdom 16 : CLS, Toulouse, France 17 : Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands 18 : Laboratoire d'Océanographie Physique et Spatiale, Univ. Brest, CNRS, IRD, Ifremer, IUEM, Brest, France |
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Source | Frontiers In Marine Science (2296-7745) (Frontiers Media SA), 2019-07 , Vol. 6 , N. 425 , P. 34p. | ||||||||
DOI | 10.3389/fmars.2019.00425 | ||||||||
WOS© Times Cited | 56 | ||||||||
Keyword(s) | air-sea interactions, Doppler oceanography from space, surface waves, absolute surface velocity, ocean surface winds | ||||||||
Abstract | Ocean surface winds, currents, and waves play a crucial role in exchanges of momentum, energy, heat, freshwater, gases, and other tracers between the ocean, atmosphere, and ice. Despite surface waves being strongly coupled to the upper ocean circulation and the overlying atmosphere, efforts to improve ocean, atmospheric, and wave observations and models have evolved somewhat independently. From an observational point of view, community efforts to bridge this gap have led to proposals for satellite Doppler oceanography mission concepts, which could provide unprecedented measurements of absolute surface velocity and directional wave spectrum at global scales. This paper reviews the present state of observations of surface winds, currents, and waves, and it outlines observational gaps that limit our current understanding of coupled processes that happen at the air-sea-ice interface. A significant challenge for the coming decade of wind, current, and wave observations will come in combining and interpreting measurements from (a) wave-buoys and high-frequency radars in coastal regions, (b) surface drifters and wave-enabled drifters in the open-ocean, marginal ice zones, and wave-current interaction “hot-spots,” and (c) simultaneous measurements of absolute surface currents, ocean surface wind vector, and directional wave spectrum from Doppler satellite sensors. |
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