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Lenain, Luc; Smeltzer, Benjamin K.; Pizzo, Nick; Colosi, Luke; Ellingsen, Simen; Freilich, Mara; Grare, Laurent; Statom, Nick (2023). Data from: Airborne observations of surface winds, waves and currents from meso to submesoscales. UC San Diego Library Digital Collections. https://doi.org/10.6075/J0F76CRK

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This collection contains the data sets needed to generate each figure presented in the publication "Lenain, Luc; Smeltzer, Benjamin K.; Pizzo, Nick; Freilich, Mara; Colosi, Luke; Ellingsen, Simen; Grare, Laurent; Peyriere, Hugo; Statom, Nick (2023). Airborne observations of surface winds, waves and currents from meso to submesoscales. Submitted to Geophysical Research Letters". In this work we present a unique set of coincident and collocated high-resolution observations of surface currents and directional properties of surface waves collected from an airborne instrument, the Modular Aerial Sensing System (MASS), collected off the coast of Southern California. High-resolution observations of near surface current profiles and shear are obtained using a new instrument, DoppVis, capable of capturing horizontal spatial current variability down to 128m resolution. This data set provides a unique opportunity to examine how currents at scales ranging from 1-100 km modulate bulk (e.g. significant wave height), directional and spectral properties of surface gravity waves. Such observations are a step toward developing better understanding of the underlying physics of submesoscale processes (e.g. frontogenesis and frontal arrest) and the nature of transitions between mesoscale and submesoscale dynamics.

Date Collected

• 2021-05-18 through 2021-11-05

Date Issued

• 2023

Authors

• Colosi, Luke
• Ellingsen, Simen
• Freilich, Mara
• Grare, Laurent
• Lenain, Luc
• Pizzo, Nick
• Smeltzer, Benjamin K.
• Statom, Nick

Funding

ONR (Grant N00014-19-1-2635), and NASA (Grant 80NSSC19K1688)

Topics

• Air-sea interaction
• Ocean currents
• Physical Oceanography
• Remote sensing
• Submesoscale dynamics
• Surface waves

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Language

• English

Identifier

Identifier: Benjamin K. Smeltzer: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4977-7692

Identifier: Laurent Grare: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3505-571X

Identifier: Luc Lenain: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9808-1563

Identifier: Luke Colosi: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0571-4358

Identifier: Mara Freilich: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0487-8518

Identifier: Nick Pizzo: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9570-4200

Identifier: Simen Ellingsen: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0294-0405

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• Lenain, Luc; Smeltzer, Benjamin K.; Pizzo, Nick; Colosi, Luke; Ellingsen, Simen; Freilich, Mara; Grare, Laurent; Statom, Nick (2023). Airborne observations of surface winds, waves and currents from meso to submesoscales. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL102468