Abstract
Abstract. In this article, we describe the seasonal variation of air-sea interface fluxes of heat, momentum and moisture over the East Asian Marginal Seas (EAMS) surrounding the Korean Peninsula. Surface layer meteorological observations for a period of about six years obtained from five oceanic buoys deployed in the Yellow Sea, Korean Strait and East (Japan) Sea form the database for this study. With the available database, monthly mean of sensible heat flux, latent heat flux and momentum flux obtained from the present analysis is compared with the existing climatological data over the EAMS.
Highlights
IntroductionWe make use of meteorological observations obtained from five oceanic buoys in the East Asian Marginal Seas (EAMS) adjoining the Korean peninsula to investigate the air-sea interaction processes over this region
In the field of marine meteorological research and oceanatmosphere interactions, accurate determination of air-sea interface fluxes at the oceanic surface remain one of the most challenging tasks
4.1 Seasonal variation of air-sea interface fluxes In Figs. 4, 5 and 6 – monthly variation of Sea Surface Temperature (SST) – Air Temperature (AT), SHF, LHF and MF are shown for the Yellow Sea, Korean Strait and East Sea respectively
Summary
We make use of meteorological observations obtained from five oceanic buoys in the East Asian Marginal Seas (EAMS) adjoining the Korean peninsula to investigate the air-sea interaction processes over this region. The RH values are converted to the Specific Humidity (SH) values in the analysis, as the SH provide a direct measurement of the amount of water vapor content present in the air-parcel. This piece of research is mainly aimed to present the seasonal variations of air-sea interface fluxes of heat, momentum and moisture over the EAMS region and compare the estimates with the existing climatological datasets. Yellow Sea/ 30-m Yellow Sea/ 33-m Korean Strait/ 80-m Korean Strait/ 84-m East (Japan) Sea/ 1518-m
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