Dataset: Air and sea-surface temperatures from MAERISST from R/V Tangaroa cruise VDT0410 in the South East of New Zealand, S.W. Bounty Trough in 2004 (SAGE project)

ValidatedFinal no updates expectedVersion 24March2010 (2010-03-24)Dataset Type:Unknown

Principal Investigator: Dr Peter J. Minnett (University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science)

BCO-DMO Data Manager: Stephen R. Gegg (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)


Program: Iron Synthesis (FeSynth)

Program: United States Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere Study (U.S. SOLAS)

Project: Surface-Ocean Lower-Atmosphere Studies Air-Sea Gas Exchange (Experiment) (SAGE)

Air and Sea-surface Temperatures from MAERISST

The data are measurements of the ocean skin SST and near-surface air-temperature derived from the natural infrared emission from the ocean and atmosphere, measured by the Marine-Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer (MAERI). M-AERI is a Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) sprectoradiometer. Calibration is traceable to NIST standards.

Relevant references are:
Minnett, P. J., R. O. Knuteson, F. A. Best, B. J. Osborne, J. A. Hanafin and O. B. Brown,
2001. The Marine-Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer (M-AERI), a
high-accuracy, sea-going infrared spectroradiometer. Journal of Atmospheric and
Oceanic Technology, 18: 994-1013.

Minnett, P. J., K. A. Maillet, J. A. Hanafin and B. J. Osborne, 2005. Infrared
interferometric measurements of the near surface air temperature over the oceans.
Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 22: 1016-1029.

Rice, J. P., J. J. Butler, B. C. Johnson, P. J. Minnett, K. A. Maillet, T. J. Nightingale, S. J.
Hook, A. Abtahi, C. J. Donlon and I. J. Barton, 2004. The Miami2001 Infrared
Radiometer Calibration and Intercomparison: 1. Laboratory Characterization of
Blackbody Targets. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 21: 258-267.

Barton, I. J., P. J. Minnett, C. J. Donlon, S. J. Hook, A. T. Jessup, K. A. Maillet and T. J.
Nightingale, 2004. The Miami2001 infrared radiometer calibration and inter-
comparison: 2. Ship comparisons. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic
Technology, 21: 268-283.


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