The effects of dissipative heating on hurricane intensity are examined using a 72-h explicit simulation of Hurricane Andrew (1992) with a state-of-the-art, three-dimensional, nonhydrostatic mesoscale (cloud resolving) model (i.e., MM5). It is found that the inclusion of dissipative heating increases the central pressure deficit of the storm by 5–7 hPa and its maximum surface wind by about 10% p...

Surface currents play a major role in the distribution of contaminants, the connectivity of marine populations, and can influence the vertical and horizontal distribution of nutrients within the water column. This paper aims to determine the effects of sea breeze-wind patterns on the climatology of the surface currents on the continental shelf surrounding Rottnest Island, WA Australia. The alte...

An empirical fetch-limited ocean wave spectrum has been combined with an acoustic ray-based model to predict the acoustic signal time-angle fluctuations induced by sea surface roughness. Rough sea surface realizations are generated and used as sea surface boundaries with the acoustic model. To validate this model, results are compared against experimental data collected in a fetch limited regio...

This paper investigates the Additional Secondary Phase Factor (ASF) characteristics of Automatic Identification System (AIS) signals spreading over a rough sea surface. According to the change of the ASFs for AIS signals in different signal form, the influences of the different propagation conditions on the ASFs are analyzed. The expression, numerical calculation, and simulation analysis of the...

Previous single-model experiments have found that Arctic sea ice loss can influence the atmospheric circulation. To evaluate this process in a multimodel ensemble, a novel methodology is here presented and applied to infer the influence of Arctic sea ice loss in the CMIP5 future projections. Sea ice influence is estimated by comparing the circulation response in the RCP8.5 scenario against the ...

A circular polarization sensor is feasible to detect a sea-skimming cruise missile in a solar corridor. We report the simulated performance results of a shipboard medium-wave infrared (MWIR) circular polarization sensor to detect a sea-skimming missile above rough sea surface. The sensor observed total and circular target and sea clutter signals at night and during daytime in and out of the sol...

A circular polarization sensor is feasible to detect a sea-skimming cruise missile in a solar corridor. We report the simulated performance results of a shipboard medium-wave infrared (MWIR) circular polarization sensor to detect a sea-skimming missile above rough sea surface. The sensor observed total and circular target and sea clutter signals at night and during daytime in and out of the sol...

Surface reflection is an important phenomenon that must be taken into account when studying sea surface infrared emissivity, especially at large observation angles. This paper models analytically the polarized infrared emissivity of one-dimensional sea surfaces with shadowing effect and one surface reflection, by assuming a Gaussian surface slope distribution. A Monte Carlo ray-tracing method i...

[1] It is known that in deep and open oceans, the effect of sea surface sensible and evaporative heat fluxes on the tropical cyclone-induced sea surface cooling is small compared to that caused by turbulent mixing and cold water entrainment into the upper ocean mixed-layer. This study shows that tropical cyclone-induced surface heat fluxes dominate the surface cooling in near-coastal shallow oc...