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JOURNAL OF ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEANIC TECHNOLOGY
卷 30, 期 2, 页码 353-360出版社
AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1175/JTECH-D-12-00139.1
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- NOAA Climate Program Office's Climate Change Data and Detection Program
- NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
- Division Of Ocean Sciences
- Directorate For Geosciences [1031278] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Satellite-tracked drifting buoys of the Global Drifter Program have drogues, centered at 15-m depth, to minimize direct wind forcing and Stokes drift. Drogue presence has historically been determined from submergence or tether strain records. However, recent studies have revealed that a significant fraction of drifters believed to be drogued have actually lost their drogues, a problem that peaked in the mid-2000s before the majority of drifters in the global array switched from submergence to tether strain sensors. In this study, a methodology is applied to the data to automatically reanalyze drogue presence based on anomalous downwind ageostrophic motion. Results indicate that the downwind slip of undrogued drifters is approximately 50% higher than previously believed. The reanalyzed results no longer exhibit the dramatic and spurious interannual variations seen in the original data. These results, along with information from submergence/tether strain and transmission frequency variations, are now being used to conduct a systematic manual reevaluation of drogue presence for each drifter in the post-1992 dataset.
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