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A prognostic scheme of sea surface skin temperature for modeling and data assimilation
Author(s) -
Zeng Xubin,
Beljaars Anton
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
geophysical research letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.007
H-Index - 273
eISSN - 1944-8007
pISSN - 0094-8276
DOI - 10.1029/2005gl023030
Subject(s) - data assimilation , geostationary orbit , sea surface temperature , climatology , environmental science , middle latitudes , meteorology , satellite , assimilation (phonology) , variation (astronomy) , atmospheric sciences , geology , geography , physics , linguistics , philosophy , astronomy , astrophysics
A prognostic scheme is derived for the computation of sea surface skin temperature in weather forecasting, four‐dimensional data assimilation, and ocean‐atmosphere coupled modeling. This scheme is then tested using the in situ data over tropical and midlatitude oceans. By implementing this scheme into the ECMWF model, the diurnal variation of sea surface temperature as measured by the geostationary satellite can also be reproduced.