Evaluation of the Tropospheric Latent Heat Advective Fluxes over the Ocean by the Animated Analysis of Satellite Radiothermal Remote Data

The next stage of advancing the animated analysis of satellite remote data proposed by the authors is described in detail: the development of a technique for calculating the latent heat advective fluxes by radiothermal measurement data from satellites. In accordance with previously accepted principles, the calculating algorithm is closed under the input satellite data; there are no requirements for additional information, which often significantly limit the applicability of new data processing techniques. The described step of the analysis is naturally associated with the already-existing algorithms and is based on the results of calculations carried out with their help (spatiotemporal interpolation of fields of geophysical parameters of the Earth atmosphere–ocean system) to evaluate the advective fluxes of the derived quantities. When the fields of integrated atmospheric vapor content are used as the input, the results of the calculations are latent heat fluxes in standard units (MW). The approach is demonstrated using the example of processing the arrayed SSM/I data acquired in August 2000 in the context of studying the evolution of tropical cyclone (TC) Alberto.