Projects

MSU Award Number

191001.361472.01C

Current NGI File Number

21-NGI4-04

Associated MSU Award or NGI File Numbers

19-NGI3-70, 18-NGI3-42, 17-NGI3-20, 16-NGI3-06, 20-NGI3-106 (191001-363513-1C)

Start Date

10/1/2016

End Date

2022-9-30 0:0:0

Project Status

Active

Award Amount

$410,120.00

Project Title

Climate Variability in Ocean Surface Turbulent Fluxes

PI Last Name

Bourassa

PI First Name

Mark

PI Affiliation

FSU

Co-PI Last Name

Smith

Co-PI First Name

Shawn

Co-PI Affiliation

FSU

Research Theme

CH-CE

Funding Source

OAR

Project Description

Air-sea interactions with fluxes of heat, moisture, and momentum serve as indicators of change in regional climate and weather patterns and, at smaller scales, may be linked to drought and floods and storm intensity and track. Flux-related variables are useful for forcing ocean models and testing coupled ocean/atmospheric models. Researchers are improving the quality of wind and flux products that combine data from multiple sources by the continued development of a global (over water) multi-satellite wind product and a satellite-based flux product that assimilates satellite and in situ data. The new gridding technique combines the strengths of satellite observations and numerical weather prediction analyses through a planetary boundary-layer model to produce a higher resolution surface vector wind data set. Earlier efforts resulted in the delayed-mode objective 1˚ FSU3 wind and flux product, monthly products, the quick-look 1˚ Legler Indian Ocean (currently not being produced) and the 2˚ Tropical Pacific pseudo-wind stress, which contributes to the NOAA Climate Diagnostics Bulletin. The winds products are available at https://mdc.coaps.fsu.edu/data, which is accessed by ~170 registered users from 16 countries, representing academic institutions, governmental agencies, public/non-profit entities, and the military.