Diagnosing ocean energy transports from earth radiation budget measurementsThe maximum energy production (MEP) principle suggested by Paltridge (1975) is applied to separate the satellite-inferred required total transports into the atmospheric and the oceanic components within a two-dimensional (2D) framework. For this purpose, the required 2D energy transports (Sohn and Smith, 1991) are imposed on Paltridge's energy balance model which is then solved as a variational problem. The results provide separated atmospheric and oceanic transports on a 2D basis such that the total divergence is equal to the net radiation measured from a satellite.
Document ID
19930052144
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Sohn, Byung-Ju (Universities Space Research Association; NASA, Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Smith, Eric A. (Florida State Univ. Tallahassee, United States)
Date Acquired
August 16, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1992
Publication Information
Publication: In: Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, 6th, Atlanta, GA, Jan. 5-10, 1992, Preprints (A93-36051 14-47)