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Correlation between air-sea heat fluxes over the Aegean Sea and the total precipitable water over Europe and North Africa
- Source :
- Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC, instname, Advances in Science and Research, Vol 6, Pp 63-67 (2011)
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- The relation between the air-sea heat fluxes in the Aegean Sea and the total precipitable water (TPW) over Europe and North Africa is investigated. An one-point linear correlation between the components of surface heat exchange and TPW is employed. During winter and for the shortwave radiation, a dipole of opposite correlation (see-saw teleconnection), is observed between the northeast Europe and the East Mediterranean Sea. This pattern is inverted for the longwave radiation and especially during the summer is limited to a strong positive south pole. Both spatial correlation patterns underline the influence of cloudiness during the winter season and the specific humidity during summer on the radiative fluxes behavior. Regarding the turbulent air-sea heat flux components – latent and sensible heat – the correlation pattern is enhanced. The winter pattern exhibits positive correlation over Europe with the highest values (r > 0.75) over the Balkan Peninsula. The identified correlation patterns, although they remain dominant, weaken during the summer. The herein findings suggest that the stronger relation between the TPW and the turbulent fluxes is regulated by the wind regime<br />The publication of this article is sponsored by the Swiss Academy of Sciences.
- Subjects :
- Atmospheric Science
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Cloud cover
0207 environmental engineering
02 engineering and technology
lcsh:QC851-999
Sensible heat
Atmospheric sciences
01 natural sciences
Radiative transfer
14. Life underwater
Shortwave radiation
lcsh:Science
020701 environmental engineering
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Precipitable water
Ecological Modeling
Humidity
Pollution
lcsh:QC1-999
Geophysics
Heat flux
13. Climate action
Climatology
Environmental science
lcsh:Q
lcsh:Meteorology. Climatology
lcsh:Physics
Teleconnection
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 19920636
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC, instname, Advances in Science and Research, Vol 6, Pp 63-67 (2011)
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....8195e67a8c67f395e2bb0e2a673c0990