Marine Meteorology is the study of weather at sea and along the coasts. In many ways it resembles mountain meteorology with coasts and current boundaries providing surface variations to drive interesting mesoscale circulation. While hurricanes, coastal cyclones, and sea breeze fronts have been extensively studied, most non-precipitating mesoscale marine atmospheric phenomena have been largely ignored. Much remains to be learned in marine meteorology, particularly concerning the weather caused by surface temperature features such as current boundaries in the open ocean. Satellite remote sensing of clouds, winds, ocean roughness, and ocean color play a key role in these ongoing discoveries.
Anomalous cloud lines over the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States.
A new model of the oceanic evaporation duct. The effect of averaging on bulk estimates of heat and momentum fluxes for the tropical western Pacific Ocean.