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| Titel |
Surface heat fluxes in the Western Equatorial Pacific Ocean |
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N. C. Wells |
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Englisch
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| ISSN |
0992-7689
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In: Annales Geophysicae ; 13, no. 10 ; Nr. 13, no. 10, S.1047-1053 |
| Datensatznummer |
250012006
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 copernicus.org/angeo-13-1047-1995.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| Estimates of the components of the surface
heat flux in the Western Equatorial Pacific Ocean are presented for a 22-day
period, together with a critical analysis of the errors. It is shown that the
errors in latent heat, and solar and longwave radiation fluxes, dominate the net
heat flux for this period. It is found that the net heat flux into the ocean
over the 22-day period is not significantly different from zero. It is also
demonstrated that because of the variability in daily averaged values of solar
radiation and the latent heat of evaporation, a large number of independent flux
measurements will be required to determine with confidence the climatological
net heat flux in this region. The variability of latent fluxes over the 22-day
period suggest that climatological estimates based on monthly mean observations
may lead to a significant underestimate of the latent heat flux. |
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