Microwave Radiation of the Ocean-Atmosphere

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Parameters Accessible for the Satellite Microwave Radiometric Means and Their Relations with the Ocean–Atmosphere Interaction

   • Alexander Grankov, Alexander Milshin

   Pages 1-32

3. Modeling of the SOA MCW and IR Characteristics and Their Relations With the Air–Sea Heat Interaction

   • Alexander Grankov, Alexander Milshin

   Pages 33-75

4. Interconnection Between the Brightness Temperature and an Intensity of the Heat Ocean–Atmosphere Interaction: Experimental Results

   • Alexander Grankov, Alexander Milshin

   Pages 77-103

5. Results of Studies of Heat and Dynamic Air–Sea Interactions with Passive Microwave Radiometric Methods at the Seasonal and Climatic Scales

   • Alexander Grankov, Alexander Milshin

   Pages 105-121

6. Effectiveness of the Satellite MCW Radiometric Means of Studying the Air–Sea Interaction

   • Alexander Grankov, Alexander Milshin

   Pages 123-154

7. Back Matter

   Pages 155-160

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We will show in this monograph some possibilities of using the potential of satellite passive microwave radiometric methods for the analysis of variations of heat and dynamic processes in the ocean–atmosphere interface in a wide range of time scales – from mesometeorogical (hours, daily) to seasonal (month) and multiyear (climatic) ones. The most essential mechanisms of intercommunication of natural microwave radiation of the system ocean–atmosphere (SOA) with the vertical turbulence fluxes of sensible, latent heat, as well as the momentum at the boundary of the SOA are studied. We will consider the turbulence heat fluxes as the factors generated by the c- otic movements in the atmosphere, when every small individual part of air is moved irregularly. Here, one can observe a transfer of the energy from large-scale to sma- scales; the average distance between the air particles is increased with a time. Also, the potential of remote sensing the characteristics of heat and water adv- tion and their accumulation in the atmosphere boundary layer are demonstrated. In these studies, we mean mainly the middle and high latitudes of the North Atlantic, which are forming the weather conditions and climatic trends over Europe and European territories of the Russia.

• ATLANTEX-90
• NEWFOUEX-88
• Scale
• air-sea interaction
• brightness temperature
• heat and momentum surface fluxes
• radiation models
• satellite radiometry
• remote sensing/photogrammetry

• Inst. Radio Engineering & Electronics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moskva, Russian Federation

  Alexander Grankov, Alexander Milshin

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