Airborne Remote Sensing of the Upper Ocean Turbulence during CASPER-East

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dc.contributor.authorSavelyev, Ivan
dc.contributor.authorMiller, William David
dc.contributor.authorSletten, Mark
dc.contributor.authorSmith, Geoffrey B.
dc.contributor.authorSavidge, Dana K.
dc.contributor.authorFrick, Glendon
dc.contributor.authorMenk, Steven
dc.contributor.authorMoore, Trent
dc.contributor.authorde Paolo, Tony
dc.contributor.authorTerrill, Eric J.
dc.contributor.authorWang, Qing
dc.contributor.authorShearman, Robert Kipp
dc.contributor.corporateNaval Postgraduate School (U.S.)en_US
dc.contributor.departmentMeteorologyen_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-01-25T20:46:18Z
dc.date.available2019-01-25T20:46:18Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.descriptionThe article of record as published may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs10081224en_US
dc.description.abstractThis study takes on the challenge of resolving upper ocean surface currents with a suite of airborne remote sensing methodologies, simultaneously imaging the ocean surface in visible, infrared, and microwave bands. A series of flights were conducted over an air-sea interaction supersite established 63 km offshore by a large multi-platform CASPER-East experiment. The supersite was equipped with a range of in situ instruments resolving air-sea interface and underwater properties, of which a bottom-mounted acoustic Doppler current profiler was used extensively in this paper for the purposes of airborne current retrieval validation and interpretation. A series of water-tracing dye releases took place in coordination with aircraft overpasses, enabling dye plume velocimetry over 100 m to 10 km spatial scales. Similar scales were resolved by a Multichannel Synthetic Aperture Radar, which resolved a swath of instantaneous surface velocities (wave and current) with 10 m resolution and 5 cm/s accuracy. Details of the skin temperature variability imprinted by the upper ocean turbulence were revealed in 1–14,000 m range of spatial scales by a mid-wave infrared camera. Combined, these methodologies provide a unique insight into the complex spatial structure of the upper ocean turbulence on a previously under-resolved range of spatial scales from meters to kilometers. However, much attention in this paper is dedicated to quantifying and understanding uncertainties and ambiguities associated with these remote sensing methodologies, especially regarding the smallest resolvable turbulent scales and to reference depths of retrieved currents.en_US
dc.description.funderNRL program element 61153N WUs BE023-01-41-1C04en_US
dc.description.funderNRL program element 61153N WUs BE023-01-41-1C02en_US
dc.description.funderNRL program element 61153N WUs BE023-01-41-6692en_US
dc.description.funderONR grant N0001418WX01087en_US
dc.description.funderNSF grant OCE-1540648en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipNRLen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipONRen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipNSFen_US
dc.identifier.citationSavelyev, Ivan, et al. "Airborne Remote Sensing of the Upper Ocean Turbulence during CASPER-East." Remote Sensing 10.8 (2018): 1224.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10945/61080
dc.publisherMDPIen_US
dc.rightsThis publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.en_US
dc.subject.authorairborne remote sensingen_US
dc.subject.authorocean surface currentsen_US
dc.subject.authorupper ocean turbulenceen_US
dc.titleAirborne Remote Sensing of the Upper Ocean Turbulence during CASPER-Easten_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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