The vertical water temperature profile in the upper few meters of the ocean is essential for calibrating the sea surface temperature (SST) from remotely sensed surface radiation fields. Also, a reliable way to predict the sea water temperature profiles is necessary for many oceanographic applications, since high temporal and spatial coverage of surface profile observations are impractical. Based on several full sets of meteorological data and observed near-surface ocean temperature, measured in the Gulf of California during the Marine Optical Characterization Experiment (MOCE-5), a numerical model is made to simulate the vertical temperature profiles for the upper 20 meters of the ocean, considering both the sun’s radiation and the cool skin effects. The simulated cool skin thickness can refine meshes near sea surface, because of which, the model can better estimate the sea surface cooling effect. Comparing the simulation results and observed data, the result shows that SkinDeEP didn’t catch the cool skin layer, and the experiment method needs to be refined. The computation results are in reasonable agreement with the observed vertical temperature profiles in the ocean, and better simulation within the top 20 cm especially 1 cm is made by the model with Xin-Yang cool skin layer model.
ZHANG Yang
,
SUN Zhi-lin
,
ZHANG Xin
. A numerical simulation of near-surface ocean temperature[J]. Journal of Tropical Oceanography, 2014
, 33(6)
: 31
-40
.
DOI: 10.11978/j.issn.1009-5470.2014.06.005
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