Data from: Airborne observations of surface winds, waves and currents from meso to submesoscales
Data from: Airborne observations of surface winds, waves and currents from meso to submesoscales
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1 digital object.
- Cite This Work
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Lenain, Luc; Smeltzer, Benjamin K.; Pizzo, Nick; Colosi, Luke; Ellingsen, Simen; Freilich, Mara; Grare, Laurent; Statom, Nick (2023). Data from: Airborne observations of surface winds, waves and currents from meso to submesoscales. UC San Diego Library Digital Collections. https://doi.org/10.6075/J0F76CRK
- Description
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This collection contains the data sets needed to generate each figure presented in the publication "Lenain, Luc; Smeltzer, Benjamin K.; Pizzo, Nick; Freilich, Mara; Colosi, Luke; Ellingsen, Simen; Grare, Laurent; Peyriere, Hugo; Statom, Nick (2023). Airborne observations of surface winds, waves and currents from meso to submesoscales. Submitted to Geophysical Research Letters". In this work we present a unique set of coincident and collocated high-resolution observations of surface currents and directional properties of surface waves collected from an airborne instrument, the Modular Aerial Sensing System (MASS), collected off the coast of Southern California. High-resolution observations of near surface current profiles and shear are obtained using a new instrument, DoppVis, capable of capturing horizontal spatial current variability down to 128m resolution. This data set provides a unique opportunity to examine how currents at scales ranging from 1-100 km modulate bulk (e.g. significant wave height), directional and spectral properties of surface gravity waves. Such observations are a step toward developing better understanding of the underlying physics of submesoscale processes (e.g. frontogenesis and frontal arrest) and the nature of transitions between mesoscale and submesoscale dynamics.
- Date Collected
- 2021-05-18 through 2021-11-05
- Date Issued
- 2023
- Authors
- Funding
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ONR (Grant N00014-19-1-2635), and NASA (Grant 80NSSC19K1688)
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- Language
- English
- Identifier
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Identifier: Benjamin K. Smeltzer: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4977-7692
Identifier: Laurent Grare: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3505-571X
Identifier: Luc Lenain: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9808-1563
Identifier: Luke Colosi: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0571-4358
Identifier: Mara Freilich: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0487-8518
Identifier: Nick Pizzo: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9570-4200
Identifier: Simen Ellingsen: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0294-0405
- Related Resource
- Lenain, L., Smeltzer, B. K., Pizzo, N., Freilich, M., Colosi, L., Ellingsen, S. Å., et al. (2023). Airborne remote sensing of upper-ocean and surface properties, currents and their gradients from meso to submesoscales. Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2022GL102468. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL102468
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