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Mechanisms driving mesoscale latent heat flux variations and mixed layer heat content evaluation in the Northwest Tropical Atlantic
Pablo Fernández
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Laboratoire d'Océanographie et du Climat: Expérimentations et Approches Numériques, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
LMD/IPSL, École Normale Supérieure, Université PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, École Polytechnique, IP Paris, France
Sabrina Speich
LMD/IPSL, École Normale Supérieure, Université PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, École Polytechnique, IP Paris, France
Guillaume Lapeyre
LMD/IPSL, École Normale Supérieure, Université PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, École Polytechnique, IP Paris, France
Claudia Pasquero
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Milano – Bicocca, Milan, Italy
Carlos Conejero
LEGOS, University of Toulouse, IRD, CNRS, CNES, UPS, Toulouse, France
ENTROPIE (IRD, CNRS, Ifremer, Université de la Réunion, Université de la Nouvelle-Calédonie), Nouméa, New Caledonia
Lionel Renault
LEGOS, University of Toulouse, IRD, CNRS, CNES, UPS, Toulouse, France
Fabien Desbiolles
LEGOS, University of Toulouse, IRD, CNRS, CNES, UPS, Toulouse, France
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Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 4067–4119, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-4067-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-4067-2021, 2021
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The EUREC4A field campaign, designed to test hypothesized mechanisms by which clouds respond to warming and benchmark next-generation Earth-system models, is presented. EUREC4A comprised roughly 5 weeks of measurements in the downstream winter trades of the North Atlantic – eastward and southeastward of Barbados. It was the first campaign that attempted to characterize the full range of processes and scales influencing trade wind clouds.
Pierre Bosser, Olivier Bock, Cyrille Flamant, Sandrine Bony, and Sabrina Speich
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 1499–1517, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-1499-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-1499-2021, 2021
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In the framework of the EUREC4A campaign, water vapour measurements were retrieved over the tropical west Atlantic Ocean from GNSS data acquired from three research vessels (R/Vs Atalante, Maria S. Merian and Meteor). The retrievals from R/Vs Atalante and Meteor are shown to be of high quality unlike the results for the R/V Maria S. Merian. These ship-borne retrievals are intended to be used for the description and understanding of meteorological phenomena that occurred during the campaign.
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Short summary
We use a high-resolution ocean-atmosphere coupled simulation to assess the effects of fine-scale sea surface temperature, surface currents, and ocean vertical stratification on the spatial variability of latent heat flux in the Northwest Tropical Atlantic. The results show significant impacts from these three variables in latent heat flux. They stress the need to account for fine-scale ocean processes in the coarser global coupled models even in relatively quiescent regions like the tropics.
We use a high-resolution ocean-atmosphere coupled simulation to assess the effects of fine-scale...
