Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa, 2010, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 217-227
Satellite estimation of sea surface temperature inaccuracy during
a calm for high diurnal warming in the Okhotsk sea
A.I. Alexanin
, M.G. Alexanina
Institute of Automation and Control Processes FEB RAS, 690041 Vladovostok, st. Radio 5
A sample of high local diurnal warming of sea surface in the Okhotsk sea during a summer solstice was considered. The available empirical models of the warming were compared. The models do not explain the observable phenomenon. For the explanation of such warming the physical models of convectional mixing, calculation of thermal flows on the surface of ocean-atmosphere, transformation of the solar radiation in the atmosphere and absorption of radiation by water are considered. The recommendations for creation of the satellite SST algorithms are offered.
Keywords: sea surface temperature, satellite monitoring, diurnal warming
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