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Vertical series of sea and air temperatures close to the surface, taken aboard the yacht Petula in the tropical Atlantic
Author(s) -
Evans F.,
Dickson C. N.,
Kove N. A. G.
Publication year - 1961
Publication title -
quarterly journal of the royal meteorological society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.744
H-Index - 143
eISSN - 1477-870X
pISSN - 0035-9009
DOI - 10.1002/qj.49708737412
Subject(s) - environmental science , sea surface temperature , climatology , humidity , warm front , isothermal process , atmospheric sciences , air temperature , meteorology , surface air temperature , relative humidity , wind speed , tropical atlantic , geology , geography , physics , thermodynamics , precipitation
Sea and air temperatures were taken at a number of points within 2 m of the surface. In general, both sea and air temperature profiles were almost isothermal at more than 1 m from the surface. Air temperatures gave some indication of a change from neutral to stable conditions above about 55 cm. There was little confirmation of an earlier suggested similarity between profiles of wind, temperature and humidity under near‐neutral conditions.