Saildrone Baja Field Campaign: A Comparison of Surface Meteorology with GEOS Products

Akella, Santha ; Genttmann, Chelle

关键词: ASSIMILATION;    ATMOSPHERIC MODELS;    CLIMATE MODELS;    DATA SYSTEMS;    EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEM (EOS);    METEOROLOGICAL PARAMETERS;    OCEAN MODELS;    PREDICTION ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES;    REAL TIME OPERATION;    SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;    SURFACE VEHICLES;    TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;   

RP-ID  :  GSFC-E-DAA-TN71693

学科分类：地球科学(综合)

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来源: NASA Technical Reports Server

【 摘 要 】

The Saildrone Baja field campaign was an international effort to collect measurements across the air-sea interface for a 62-day period between April 11-June 11, 2018. The field campaign was executed using a saildrone, an unmanned surface vehicle (USV) carrying a comprehensive suite of instruments to measure meteorological, ocean surface, and subsurface data. We use these data to validate near-surface meteorology and ocean surface temperature fields in theGlobal Earth Observing System (GEOS). This is the first study using Saildrone data to validate GEOS products. As these USV platforms become more prevalent, they could be used to improve model representation of the air-sea interface variables.