Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa, 2013, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 51-59
Research of characteristics of intensive mesoscale cyclones over the Far Eastern Seas on the basis of satellite multisensor sounding
I.A. Gurvich
, M.K. Pichugin
V.I. Il’ichev Pacific Oceanological Institute FEB RAS, 690041, Vladivostok, Baltiyskaya Street, 43
150–250 mesocyclones (MC) with wind speeds ≥ 12 m/s are typical formed over the Far Eastern seas in the cold season. The MCs developing over the Okhotsk Sea are different from ones of the Sea of Japan on structure of cloud system and atmospheric parameters. MCs parameters, such as sea surface wind speed, the total atmospheric water vapor and cloud liquid water content et al, and structure of cloudiness are investigated using complex data obtained from spectroradiometer MODIS, microwave radiometer AMSR-E from the Aqua satellite and also W-band Cloud Profiling Radar (CPR) from the CloudSat satellite.
Keywords: mesoscale cyclones, multisensor satellite sounding, atmospheric water vapor and cloud liquid water content, sea surface wind, cloudiness structure.
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