A pilot data analysis of sea surface temperatures and wind speeds measured on Oceanic Weather Ship PAPA
Subtitle: a summary
By: by P.A. Jacobs
Contributors: Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
Publisher: Naval Postgraduate School
Published: 1984
Place of publication: Monterey, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 26
Subjects: Ocean temperature; Meteorology; Oceanography; Analysis
Description: This note describes the results of an exploratory data-analytic study of sea surface temperatures and wind speeds measured on Oceanic Weather Ship PAPA.  Spectral analysis indicates that sea surface temperatures and wind speeds have seasonal effects.  Detrended sea surface temperatures and wind speeds exhibit the following association.  Positive changes between days t and t-1 in the inverse residual sea surface temperature are associated with large residual wind speeds on day t and large residual sea surface temperatures on day t-1.  This association can be explained by the behavior of the oceanic mixed layer depth.
Notes: Title from cover.

"Prepared for: Chief of Naval Research"--Cover.

"July 1984"--Cover.

"NPS55-84-014"--Cover.

Author(s) key words: Sea surface temperatures, wind speeds, oceanic mixed layer depth, data analysis.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 13).

"Approved for public release; distribution unlimited"--Cover.

Technical report; 1984.

ck/ 9/22/09.