Estimation of turbulent heat flux over leads using satellite thermal images

Qu, Meng; Pang, Xiaoping; Zhao, Xi; Zhang, Jinlun; Ji, Qing; Fan, Pei

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-1565-2019

Articles | Volume 13, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-1565-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-1565-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 6

Research article

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04 Jun 2019

Research article |

| 04 Jun 2019

Estimation of turbulent heat flux over leads using satellite thermal images

Meng Qu, Xiaoping Pang, Xi Zhao, Jinlun Zhang, Qing Ji, and Pei Fan

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Final revised paper (published on 04 Jun 2019)
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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review of 'Estimation of turbulent heat flux over leads using satellite thermal images'', Anonymous Referee #1, 28 Feb 2019
- AC1: 'Response to Reviewer’ Comments', Meng Qu, 19 Apr 2019
RC2: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #2, 04 Mar 2019
- AC2: 'Response to Reviewer’ Comments', Meng Qu, 19 Apr 2019

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AR by Meng Qu on behalf of the Authors (24 Apr 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (28 Apr 2019) by Christian Haas

AR by Meng Qu on behalf of the Authors (01 May 2019)

ED: Publish as is (18 May 2019) by Christian Haas

AR by Meng Qu on behalf of the Authors (19 May 2019) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

Can we ignore the contribution of small ice leads when estimating turbulent heat flux? Combining bulk formulae and a fetch-limited model with surface temperature from MODIS and Landsat-8 Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) images, we found small leads account for 25 % of the turbulent heat flux, due to its large total area. Estimated turbulent heat flux is larger from TIRS than that from MODIS with a coarser resolution and larger using a fetch-limited model than that using bulk formulae.