The red experiment: An assessment of boundary layer effects in a trade winds regime on microwave and infrared propagation over the sea
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The Rough Evaporation Duct (RED) experiment was performed off of the Hawaiian Island of Oahu from late August to mid-September 2001 to test the hypothesis that a rough sea surface modifies the evaporation duct. Two land sites were instrumented, one with microwave receivers and the other with an infrared receiver. Two bouys were deployed, a small boat was instrumented and two aircrafts flew various tracks to sense both sea and atmospheric conditions. It was observed that waves do modify the scalars within the air-sea surface layer. There was a lack of agreement of the scalar profile constants and those typically observed over land. Furthermore, evidence was obtained indicating that the Monin-Obukhov similarity theory, combined with high-quality meteorological measurements, can be used by propagation models to accurately predict microwave signal levels.
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TNO Identifier
237949
Source
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 85(9), pp. 1355-1365.
Pages
1355-1365
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