scholarly journals On the seasonal circulation within the Panama Bight derived from satellite observations of wind, altimetry and sea surface temperature

2003 ◽  
Vol 30 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Efraín Rodríguez-Rubio ◽  
Wolfgang Schneider ◽  
Rodrigo Abarca del Río
Keyword(s):  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Sea Surface Temperature ◽  
Satellite Observations ◽  
Sea Surface ◽  
Seasonal Circulation

scholarly journals DINCAE 1.0: a convolutional neural network with error estimates to reconstruct sea surface temperature satellite observations

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 1609-1622 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Barth ◽  
Aida Alvera-Azcárate ◽  
Matjaz Licer ◽  
Jean-Marie Beckers
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Missing Data ◽  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Sea Surface Temperature ◽  
Error Variance ◽  
Temperature Data ◽  
Satellite Observations ◽  
Sea Surface ◽  
Function Decomposition ◽  
Surface Temperature Data

Abstract. A method to reconstruct missing data in sea surface temperature data using a neural network is presented. Satellite observations working in the optical and infrared bands are affected by clouds, which obscure part of the ocean underneath. In this paper, a neural network with the structure of a convolutional auto-encoder is developed to reconstruct the missing data based on the available cloud-free pixels in satellite images. Contrary to standard image reconstruction with neural networks, this application requires a method to handle missing data (or data with variable accuracy) in the training phase. The present work shows a consistent approach which uses the satellite data and its expected error variance as input and provides the reconstructed field along with its expected error variance as output. The neural network is trained by maximizing the likelihood of the observed value. The approach, called DINCAE (Data INterpolating Convolutional Auto-Encoder), is applied to a 25-year time series of Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) sea surface temperature data and compared to DINEOF (Data INterpolating Empirical Orthogonal Functions), a commonly used method to reconstruct missing data based on an EOF (empirical orthogonal function) decomposition. The reconstruction error of both approaches is computed using cross-validation and in situ observations from the World Ocean Database. DINCAE results have lower error while showing higher variability than the DINEOF reconstruction.

scholarly journals Impacts of Sea Surface Temperature Uncertainty on the Western North Pacific Subtropical High (WNPSH) and Rainfall

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 371-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaodong Hong ◽  
Craig H. Bishop ◽  
Teddy Holt ◽  
Larry O’Neill
Keyword(s):  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Sea Surface Temperature ◽  
North Pacific ◽  
Western North Pacific ◽  
Forecast Error ◽  
Error Variance ◽  
Satellite Observations ◽  
Sea Surface ◽  
Subtropical High ◽  
Forecast Error Variance

Abstract This paper examines the sensitivity of short-term forecasts of the western North Pacific subtropical high (WNPSH) and rainfall to sea surface temperature (SST) uncertainty using the Coupled Ocean–Atmosphere Mesoscale Prediction System (COAMPS). A comparison of analyzed SSTs with satellite observations of SST indicates that SST analysis errors are particularly pronounced on horizontal scales from 100 to 200 km, similar to the mesoscale eddy scales in the Kuroshio region. Since significant oceanic variations occur on these scales, it is of interest to examine the effects of representing this small-scale uncertainty with random, scale-dependent perturbations. An SST ensemble perturbation generation technique is used here that enables temporal and spatial correlations to be controlled and produces initial SST fields comparable to satellite observations. The atmospheric model develops large uncertainty in the Korea and Japan area due to the fluctuation in the horizontal pressure gradient caused by the location of the WNPSH. This, in turn, increases the variance of the low-level jet (LLJ) over southeast China, resulting in large differences in the moist transport flux from the tropical ocean and subsequent rainfall. Validation using bin-mean statistics shows that the ensemble forecast with the perturbed SST better distinguishes large forecast error variance from small forecast error variance. The results suggest that using the SST perturbation as a proxy for the ocean ensemble in a coupled atmosphere and ocean ensemble system is feasible and computationally efficient.

Assimilation of Low-Peaking Satellite Observations Using the Coupled Interface Framework

2020 ◽  
Vol 148 (2) ◽  
pp. 637-654
Author(s):  
Sergey Frolov ◽  
William Campbell ◽  
Benjamin Ruston ◽  
Craig H. Bishop ◽  
David Kuhl ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Sea Surface Temperature ◽  
Circulation Model ◽  
Satellite Observations ◽  
Sea Surface ◽  
Transfer Model ◽  
Western Boundary ◽  
Diurnal Variability ◽  
Near Surface ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Coupled data assimilation (DA) provides a consistent framework for assimilating satellite observations that are sensitive to several components of the Earth system. In this paper, we focus on low-peaking infrared satellite channels that are sensitive to the lower atmosphere and Earth surface temperature (EST) over both ocean and land. Our atmospheric hybrid-4DVAR system [the Navy Global Environmental Model (NAVGEM)] is extended to include the following: 1) variability in the sea surface temperature (both diurnal variability and climatological perturbations to the ensemble members), 2) the coupled Jacobians of the radiative transfer model for the infrared sensors, and 3) the coupled covariances between the EST and the atmosphere. Our coupling approach is found to improve forecast accuracy and to provide corrections to the EST that are in balance with the atmospheric analysis. The largest impact of the coupling is found on near-surface atmospheric temperature and humidity in the tropics, but the impact extends all the way to the stratosphere. The role of each coupling element on the performance of the global atmospheric circulation model is investigated. Inclusion of variability in the sea surface temperature has the strongest positive impact on the forecast quality. Additional inclusion of the coupled Jacobian and ensemble-based coupled covariances led to further improvements in scores and to modification of the corrections to the ocean boundary layer. Coupled DA had significant impact on latent and sensible heat fluxes over land, locations of western boundary currents, and along the ice edge.

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