Boas, ABV;
Ardhuin, F;
Ayet, A;
Bourassa, MA;
Brandt, P;
Chapron, B;
Cornuelle, BD;
... van Sebille, E; + view all
(2019)
Integrated Observations of Global Surface Winds, Currents, and Waves: Requirements and Challenges for the Next Decade.
[Review].
Frontiers in Marine Science
, 6
, Article 425. 10.3389/fmars.2019.00425.
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Abstract
Ocean surface winds, currents, and waves play a crucial role in exchanges of momentum, energy, heat, freshwater, gases, and other tracers between the ocean, atmosphere, and ice. Despite surface waves being strongly coupled to the upper ocean circulation and the overlying atmosphere, efforts to improve ocean, atmospheric, and wave observations and models have evolved somewhat independently. From an observational point of view, community efforts to bridge this gap have led to proposals for satellite Doppler oceanography mission concepts, which could provide unprecedented measurements of absolute surface velocity and directional wave spectrum at global scales. This paper reviews the present state of observations of surface winds, currents, and waves, and it outlines observational gaps that limit our current understanding of coupled processes that happen at the air-sea-ice interface. A significant challenge for the coming decade of wind, current, and wave observations will come in combining and interpreting measurements from (a) wave-buoys and high-frequency radars in coastal regions, (b) surface drifters and wave-enabled drifters in the open-ocean, marginal ice zones, and wave-current interaction “hot-spots,” and (c) simultaneous measurements of absolute surface currents, ocean surface wind vector, and directional wave spectrum from Doppler satellite sensors.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Integrated Observations of Global Surface Winds, Currents, and Waves: Requirements and Challenges for the Next Decade |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.3389/fmars.2019.00425 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00425 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Keywords: | air-sea interactions, Doppler oceanography from space, surface waves, absolute surface velocity, ocean surface winds |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Earth Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10079654 |
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