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Acoustic remote sensing of ocean-atmosphere interactions

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Acoustic Remote Sensing Applications

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At this step one may remark that acoustic remote sensing of the MABL and some ocean surface properties (surface roughness, wind, precipitation) is mature and a lot of progress has been made. However as all these techniques are affected by human activity noises (ship noise and platform noise) and marine life noises (fishes...) and platform airflow deformation, they are therefore difficult to apply. Further, for MABL acoustic sounding stabilized platforms are necessary since platform motions in case of severe conditions have to be eliminated.

Concerning MABL Sodar sounding, considering the literature it appears that during very unstable conditions, in case of low level inversion layer, though the ship noises are often strong, one can use 2000 Hz sounding; but it was observed during SOFIA/ASTEX 92 where these last conditions were not prevailing that only high frequency (6000 Hz) minisounding was possible.

We suggest in the future to use multifrequencies in the high frequency minisodar and to combine the minisodar data with a boundary layer high frequency radar to take benefit of RASS (Radio-Acoustic) capabilities and to obtain temperature profiles in the surface layer.

For acoustic remote sensing of the surface, as it is possible (after calibration) to estimate wind speed at different scales, sea surface roughness informations related to the breaking waves and rain rate, we suggest the idea of operational drifting buoys development with a directional hydrophone, a meteorological station and computing facilities on board. Hence estimating these last parameters with an “internal” calibration with the wind speed on board, then transmitting the elaborated information via ARGOS system would be an excellent mean for intercomparison and intercalibration with satellite estimates of the same variables.

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Weill, A., Dupuis, H. (1997). Acoustic remote sensing of ocean-atmosphere interactions. In: Singal, S.P. (eds) Acoustic Remote Sensing Applications. Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, vol 69. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0009577

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