{"title":"Validation of the CLARA-A3 Top-of-Atmosphere Radiative Fluxes Climate Data Record","authors":"Tom Akkermans, N. Clerbaux","doi":"10.1175/jtech-d-23-0065.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1175/jtech-d-23-0065.1","url":null,"abstract":"The third edition of the CM SAF Cloud, Albedo and Surface Radiation dataset from AVHRR data (CLARA-A3) contains for the first time the top-of-atmosphere products reflected solar flux (RSF) and outgoing longwave radiation (OLR), which are presented and validated using CERES, HIRS, and ERA5 reference data. The products feature an unprecedented resolution (0.25°) and time span (4 decades) and offer synergy and compatibility with other CLARA-A3 products. The RSF is relatively stable; its bias with respect to (w.r.t.) ERA5 remains mostly within ±2 W m−2. Deviations are predominantly caused by absence of either morning or afternoon satellite, mostly during the first decade. The radiative impact of the Pinatubo volcanic eruption is estimated at 3 W m−2. The OLR is stable w.r.t. ERA5 and HIRS, except during 1979–80. OLR regional uncertainty w.r.t. HIRS is quantified by the mean absolute bias (MAB) and correlates with observation density and time (satellite orbital configuration), which is optimal during 2002–16, with monthly and daily MAB of approximately 1.5 and 3.5 W m−2, respectively. Daily OLR uncertainty is higher (MAB +40%) during periods with only morning or only afternoon observations (1979–87). During the CERES era (2000–20), the OLR uncertainties w.r.t. CERES-EBAF, CERES-SYN, and HIRS are very similar. The RSF uncertainty achieves optimal results during 2002–16 with a monthly MAB w.r.t. CERES-EBAF of ∼2 W m−2 and a daily MAB w.r.t. CERES-SYN of ∼5 W m−2, and it is more sensitive to orbital configuration than is OLR. Overall, validation results are satisfactory for this first release of TOA flux products in the CLARA-A3 portfolio.","PeriodicalId":15074,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139304957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Developing Data-driven Transfer Learning Model to Locate Tropical Cyclone Centers on Satellite Infrared Imagery","authors":"Chong Wang, Xiaofeng Li","doi":"10.1175/jtech-d-23-0026.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1175/jtech-d-23-0026.1","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this paper, a data-driven transfer learning (TL) model for locating tropical cyclone (TC) centers from satellite infrared images in the Northwest Pacific is developed. A total of 2450 satellite infrared TC images derived from 97 TC between 2015 and 2018 were used for this paper. The TC center location model (ResNet-TCL) with added residual fully-connected modules is built for the TC center location. The MAE of the ResNet-TCL model is 34.8 km. Then TL is used to improve the model performance, including obtaining a pre-trained model based on the ImageNet dataset, transferring the pre-trained model parameters to the ResNet-TCL model, and using TC satellite infrared imagery to fine-train the ResNet-TCL model. The results show that the TL-based model improves the location accuracy by 14.1% (29.3 km) over the No-TL model. The model performance increases logarithmically with the amount of training data. When the training data are large, the benefit of increasing the training samples is smaller than the benefit of using TL. The comparison of model results with the Best Track data of TCs shows that the MAEs of TCs center is 29.3 km for all samples and less than 20 km for H2-H5 TCs. In addition, the visualization of the TL-based TC center location model shows that the TL model can accurately extract the most important features related to TC center location, including TC eye, TC texture, and contour. On the other hand, the No-TL model does not accurately extract these features.","PeriodicalId":15074,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology","volume":"116 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135863395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Drift characteristics of Sea-Bird dissolved oxygen optode sensors","authors":"Alice S. Ren, Daniel L. Rudnick, Alistair Twombly","doi":"10.1175/jtech-d-22-0103.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1175/jtech-d-22-0103.1","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The Sea-Bird 63 dissolved oxygen optode sensors used on various oceanographic platforms are known to drift over time. Corrections for drift are necessary for accurate dissolved oxygen measurements on the timescale of months to years. Here, drift on 14 Sea-Bird 63 dissolved oxygen optode sensors deployed on Spray underwater gliders over 5 years is described. The gliders with oxygen sensors were deployed regularly for 100-day missions as part of the California Underwater Glider Network (CUGN). A laboratory two-point calibration was performed on the oxygen sensor before and after glider deployment. Sensor drift during 100-day deployments was larger than during 100-day storage periods. Sensor behavior is modeled with a gain that asymptotes to 1.090 ± 0.005 with an e-folding timescale of 3.70 ± 0.361 years. At zero oxygen concentration, the sensor consistently reads around 3 μmol kg −1 ; a negative offset term is used in addition to the gain to correct the sensor oxygen. The correction procedure removes the error due to long time drift, one of the major sources of error, with an uncertainty of 0.5% (0.9% including outliers) or 0.5 μmol kg −1 depending on concentration, which improves the accuracy of the Sea-Bird 63 although uncertainty from other sources of error including the initial factory calibration and the sensor response time remain. Suggested procedures for implementing a two-point calibration procedure in the laboratory are discussed. Calibrations must be considered starting 6 months after initial factory calibration to keep error from sensor time drift under 1%.","PeriodicalId":15074,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136382077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Estimating profiles of dissipation rate in the upper ocean using acoustic Doppler measurements made from surface following platforms","authors":"Kristin Zeiden, Jim Thomson, James Girton","doi":"10.1175/jtech-d-23-0027.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1175/jtech-d-23-0027.1","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract High resolution profiles of vertical velocity obtained from two different surface-following autonomous platforms, Surface Wave Instrument Floats with Tracking (SWIFTs) and a Liquid Robotics SV3 Wave Glider, are used to compute dissipation rate profiles ϵ ( ɀ ) between 0.5 and 5 m depth via the structure function method. The main contribution of this work is to update previous SWIFT methods (Thomson 2012) to account for bias due to surface gravity waves, which are ubiquitous in the near-surface region. We present a technique where the data are pre-filtered by removing profiles of wave orbital velocities obtained via empirical orthogonal function (EOF) analysis of the data prior to computing the structure function. Our analysis builds on previous work to remove wave bias in which analytic modifications are made to the structure function model (Scannell et al. 2017). However, we find the analytic approach less able to resolve the strong vertical gradients in ϵ ( ɀ ) near the surface. The strength of the EOF filtering technique is that it does not require any assumptions about the structure of non-turbulent shear, and does not add any additional degrees of freedom in the least-squares fit to the model of the structure function. In comparison to the analytic method, ϵ ( ɀ ) estimates obtained via empirical filtering have substantially reduced noise and clearer dependence on near-surface wind speed.","PeriodicalId":15074,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology","volume":"16 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135855636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
David Halpern, Megan K. Le, Timothy A. Smith, Patrick Heimbach
{"title":"Comparison of ADCP and ECCOv4r4 Currents in the Pacific Equatorial Undercurrent","authors":"David Halpern, Megan K. Le, Timothy A. Smith, Patrick Heimbach","doi":"10.1175/jtech-d-23-0013.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1175/jtech-d-23-0013.1","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The Pacific Equatorial Undercurrent (EUC) flows eastward across the Pacific at the equator in the thermocline. Its variability is related to El Niño. Moored acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) measurements recorded at 4 widely-separated sites along the equator in the EUC were compared to currents generated by version 4 release 4 of the Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean (ECCOv4r4) global model-data synthesis product. We are interested to learn how well ECCOv4r4 currents could complement sparse in situ current measurements. ADCP measurements were not assimilated in ECCOv4r4. Comparisons occurred at 5-m depth intervals at 165°E, 170°W, 140°W, and 110°W over time intervals of 10-14 years from 1995-2010. Hourly values of ECCOv4r4 and ADCP EUC core speeds were strongly correlated; similar for the EUC transport per unit width (TPUW). Correlations were substantially weaker at 110°W. Although we expected means and standard deviations of ECCOv4r4 currents to be smaller than ADCP values because of ECCOv4r4’s grid representation error, the large differences were unforeseen. The appearance of ECCOv4r4 diurnal-period current oscillations was surprising. As the EUC moved eastward from 170°W to 140°W, the ECCOv4r4 TPUW exhibited a much smaller increase compared to the ADCP TPUW. A consequence of smaller ECCOv4r4 EUC core speeds was significantly fewer instances of gradient Richardson number (Ri) less than ¼ above and below the depth of the core speed compared to Ri computed with ADCP observations. We present linear regression analyses to use monthly-mean ECCOv4r4 EUC core speeds and TPUWs as proxies for ADCP measurements.","PeriodicalId":15074,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135857354","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Airborne Radar Doppler Spectrum Width as a Scale-Dependent Turbulence Metric","authors":"Adam Majewski, Jeffrey R. French, Samuel Haimov","doi":"10.1175/jtech-d-23-0056.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1175/jtech-d-23-0056.1","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract High resolution airborne cloud Doppler radars such as the W-Band Wyoming Cloud Radar (WCR) have, since the 1990s, investigated cloud microphysical, kinematic, and precipitation structures down to 30-m resolution. These measurements revolutionized our understanding of fine-scale cloud structure and the scales at which cloud processes occur. Airborne cloud Doppler radars may also resolve cloud turbulent eddy structure directly at 10-meter scales. To date, cloud turbulence has been examined as variances (Schwartz et al. 2019) and dissipation rates (Strauss et al. 2015) at coarser resolution than individual pulse volumes. The present work advances the potential of near-vertical pulse pair Doppler spectrum width as a metric for turbulent air motion. Doppler spectrum width has long been used to investigate turbulent motions from ground-based remote sensors. However, complexities of airborne Doppler radar and spectral broadening resulting from platform and hydrometeor motions have limited airborne radar spectrum width measurements to qualitative interpretation only. Here we present the first quantitative validation of spectrum width from an airborne cloud radar. Echoes with signal-to-noise ratio greater than 10 dB yield spectrum width values that strongly correlate with retrieved mean Doppler variance for a range of non-convective cloud conditions. Further, Doppler spectrum width within turbulent regions of cloud also shows good agreement with in-situ eddy dissipation rate (EDR) and gust probe variance. However, the use of pulse pair estimated spectrum width as a metric for turbulent air motion intensity is only suitable for turbulent air motions more energetic than the magnitude of spectral broadening, estimated to be < 0.4 m s −1 for the WCR in these cases.","PeriodicalId":15074,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135830064","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alexei Sentchev, Max Yaremchuk, Denis Bourras, Ivane Pairaud, Philippe Fraunié
{"title":"Estimation of the Eddy Viscosity Profile in the Sea Surface Boundary Layer from Underway ADCP Observations","authors":"Alexei Sentchev, Max Yaremchuk, Denis Bourras, Ivane Pairaud, Philippe Fraunié","doi":"10.1175/jtech-d-22-0083.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1175/jtech-d-22-0083.1","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract A method of assessing the mean eddy viscosity profile (EVP) in the sea surface boundary layer (SBL) under variable wind conditions is proposed. Performance of the method is tested using observations by an ADCP-equipped platform in the coastal environment of the northwestern Mediterranean Sea under variable (3–12 m s −1 ) wind conditions. EVP retrievals are made by a variational method strongly constrained by the Ekman dynamics, with the wind and velocity observations assumed to be uncertain within the prescribed error bars. Results demonstrate a reasonable agreement of the EVPs with KPP shape functions for stronger (8–12 m s −1 ) wind conditions and appear to be consistent with the classical Pacanowski–Philander parameterization of the viscosity profile based on the Richardson number. For weaker (3–5 m s −1 ) winds, the EVP retrievals turn out to be less accurate, which is primarily attributed to the decay of the wind-driven turbulence energy in the SBL. Feasibility and prospects of the retrieval technique are discussed in the context of uncertainties in the structure of the background flow and limitations of the microstructure and ADCP profiling.","PeriodicalId":15074,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135810338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zhen Wang, Yini Chen, Liangyu Liu, Hao Yuan, Li Zou
{"title":"Current Effect on Wave Condition around Island in the South China Sea","authors":"Zhen Wang, Yini Chen, Liangyu Liu, Hao Yuan, Li Zou","doi":"10.1175/jtech-d-23-0015.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1175/jtech-d-23-0015.1","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Currents have a significant impact on wave parameters around islands. In this study, high-resolution unsteady current simulations based on island geography and wind fields from Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model are used as input sources. The wave action balance model uses an unstructured grid to assess the wave conditions in the Atoll during Typhoon Noul. The characteristic wave parameters, with and without the effect of currents, are compared with the field observation data, including significant wave height, wave period, and the spatial distribution of significant wave height. The results show that simulated significant wave heights and wave periods are close to observed data, considering the effect of currents. The energy and shape of the spectrum are also verified during Typhoon Noul, and the observed agreement is improved when considering the currents. The effects of current within the Atoll are relatively weaker compared to the surroundings, while stronger current effects are observed in the deeper water outside the Atoll. Refraction caused by current expands the area of moderate sea state behind the island. Significance Statement Several innovations of this article are as follows: 1) the influence of currents on wave conditions at the Atoll; 2) exploring the impact of currents using key parameters, such as significant wave height, wave period, and wave spectrum, especially during the passage of Typhoon Noul; 3) swell emerges as the dominant factor influencing wave conditions as the center of Typhoon Noul gradually moves away; and 4) refraction caused by current expands the area of moderate sea state behind the island.","PeriodicalId":15074,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology","volume":"129 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135965843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Katia Lamer, Pavlos Kollias, Edward P. Luke, Bernat P. Treserras, Mariko Oue, Brenda Dolan
{"title":"Multisensor Agile Adaptive Sampling (MAAS): a methodology to collect radar observations of convective cell lifecycle","authors":"Katia Lamer, Pavlos Kollias, Edward P. Luke, Bernat P. Treserras, Mariko Oue, Brenda Dolan","doi":"10.1175/jtech-d-23-0043.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1175/jtech-d-23-0043.1","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Multisensor Agile Adaptive Sampling (MAAS), a smart sensing framework, was adapted to increase the likelihood of observing the vertical structure (with little to no gaps), spatial variability (at sub-km scale), and temporal evolution (at ~2-min resolution) of convective cells. This adaptation of MAAS guided two mechanically scanning C-band radars (the CSAPR2 and CHIVO) by automatically analyzing the latest NEXRAD data to identify, characterize, track, and nowcast the location of all convective cells forming in the Houston domain. MAAS used either a list of predetermined rules or real-time user input to select a convective cell to be tracked and sampled by the C-band radars. The CSAPR2 tracking radar was first tasked to collect 3 sector Plan Position Indicator (PPI) scans towards the selected cell. Edge computer processing of the PPI scans was used to identify additional targets within the selected cell. In less than 2 min, both the CSAPR2 and CHIVO radars were able to collect bundles of 3-6 Range Height Indicator (RHI) scans toward different targets of interest within the selected cell. Bundles were successively collected along the path of cell advection for as long as the cell met a pre-determined set of criteria. Between 01 June and 30 September 2022 over 315,000 vertical cross-section observations were collected by the C-band radars through ~1,300 unique isolated convective cells, most of which were observed for over 15-min of their lifecycle. To the best of our knowledge, this dataset, collected primarily through automatic means, constitutes the largest dataset of its kind.","PeriodicalId":15074,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135245748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}