Ocean variability and air-sea fluxes produced by atmospheric rivers
| dc.contributor.author | Shinoda, Toshiaki | |
| dc.contributor.author | Zamudio, Luis | |
| dc.contributor.author | Guo, Yanjuan | |
| dc.contributor.author | Metzger, Joseph | |
| dc.contributor.author | Fairall, Chris W. | |
| dc.creator.orcid | http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1416-2206 | en_US |
| dc.creator.orcid | http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3882-4326 | en_US |
| dc.creator.orcid | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1416-2206 | |
| dc.creator.orcid | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3882-4326 | |
| dc.creator.orcid | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1416-2206 | |
| dc.creator.orcid | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3882-4326http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1416-2206 | |
| dc.creator.orcid | http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3882-4326 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-03-22T21:24:43Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-03-22T21:24:43Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019-02-15 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Atmospheric rivers (ARs) cause heavy precipitation and flooding in the coastal areas of many mid-latitude continents, and thus the atmospheric processes associated with the AR have been intensively studied in recent years. However, AR-associated ocean variability and air-sea fluxes have received little attention because of the lack of high-resolution ocean data until recently. Here we demonstrate that typical ARs can generate strong upper ocean response and substantial air-sea fluxes using a high-resolution (1/12°) ocean reanalysis. AR events observed during the CalWater 2015 field campaign generate large-scale on-shore currents that hit the coast, generating strong narrow northward jets along the west coast of North America, in association with a substantial rise of sea level at the coast. In the open ocean, the AR generates prominent changes of mixed layer depth, especially south of 30°N due to the strong surface winds and air-sea heat fluxes. The prominent cooling of SST is observed only in the vicinity of AR upstream areas primarily due to the large latent heat flux. Using a long-term AR dataset, composite structure and variations of upper ocean and air-sea fluxes are presented, which are consistent with those found in the events during CalWater 2015. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | This research is supported by NSF grants AGS-1347132 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Shinoda, T., Zamudio, L., Guo, Y., Metzger, E.J. and Fairall, C.W., 2019. Ocean variability and air-sea fluxes produced by atmospheric rivers. Scientific reports, 9(1), pp.1-12. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.doi | https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-38562-2 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1969.6/90304 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | naure | en_US |
| dc.rights | Attribution 4.0 International | * |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | * |
| dc.subject | ocean | en_US |
| dc.subject | air-sea | en_US |
| dc.subject | rivers | en_US |
| dc.title | Ocean variability and air-sea fluxes produced by atmospheric rivers | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |