This study, however, demonstrates that the tropical upper-tropospheric warming (UTW) tends to trap more moisture in the lower troposphere and weaken the surface wind speed, both contributing to reduce the upward surface latent heat flux so as to trigger the initial sea surface warming. We refer...
The spatial distribution of the surface heat fluxes, which has not been investigated before, show relatively large spatial variation in latent heat flux. The annual mean net heat flux spatial distribution varies from about 30 to 10Wm2, with greatest heat loss in southeastern and northwestern ...
where L is the coefficient for the latent heat of evaporation. On the basis of the energy conservation principle, the net flux of energy absorbed by the surface must equal the rate at which the surface is storing energy Ss, so that (8.5.6)Ss=Fs(0)−Fir(0)−Fυ(0)=Fs↓(0)(1...
The annual mean values of upward heat transfer due to solar radiation, sensible heat, latent heat and infrared radiation fluxes are 212, 1, 168 and 66 W m2, respectively. Based on the surface inflow and subsurface outflow through the Strait of Hormuz, the annual average heat transport into ...
In contrast, in the nearby area of the Arabian Gulf there is a yearly average of an upward flux at the sea surface, which is compensated by an advective heat flow of approximately 25 W m 2 through the strait of Hormuz. Some of the heat in the Gulf of Oman is transported into the ...
The climatology, trends and leading modes of land surface latent heat flux (LHF) and sensible heat flux (SHF) as well as their responses to monsoon and precipitation in global land monsoon domains are presented. During the past three decades, LHF and SHF have generally undergone a rising and...
Warm (moist) air near the surface is transported upward by secondary circulations, which leads to a positive sensible (latent) heat flux that cannot be capture by single-tower measurements, if these structures are not carried along the EC system by the mean wind within the flux-averaging time...
While our initial hypothesis identified transitional periods of ice cover as a leading source of model uncertainty, we instead found that the models failed to account for a large growth in upward latent heat fluxes that occurred from late August into late December, a pattern which was confirmed ...
In the case of HE030528, we propose a hypothesis that those processes may be enhanced due to the westerly wind, increasing evaporation as well as latent heat flux. If so, convection was reactivated and this became the end stage of HE030528. The relation between convection and westerly ...
3.3. Salinity dependence of surface latent heat flux Evaporation at the airÁsea interface results in an upward transport of energy in the form of latent heat, and thus injects water vapour into the atmosphere. This is a major energy source for atmospheric circulation (Schulz et al., 1997)...