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| Title: | Balance of surface, advective and up-welling heat fluxes in the Gulf of Aden |
| Authors: | Abualanaja, Yasser O.
Ahmad, Fazal
Al-mtairi, Nwaf A. |
| Keywords: | Gulf of Aden
Red Sea
Surface heat fluxes
Advective heat transport |
| Issue Date: | Feb-2011 |
| Publisher: | NISCAIR-CSIR, India |
| Abstract: | Based
on International Comprehensive Ocean Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS), monthly
summary groups (1960-2008), covering 1o boxes in the Gulf of Aden, the surface advective and up-welled heat
fluxes are calculated. Annual averages of evaporative, net long wave radiation
and sensible heat fluxes are respectively 143, 55 and 2 W/m2. Annual average of absorbed solar radiations at the
sea surface based on the Smithsonian formula is 249 W/m2. Advective heat transport to the Red Sea from Gulf of
Aden at Bab-el-Mandab
Strait is 35 W/m2 giving a surplus of 14 W/m2. Compared to the available recorded solar radiations
it seems that the Smithsonian formula over-estimates the incoming solar
radiations perhaps because of the neglect of aerosols. Up-welled heat flux
during the southwest monsoon is 1.0 × 1013 W. |
| Page(s): | 42-47 |
| CC License: |  CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India |
| ISSN: | 0975-1033 (Online); 0379-5136 (Print) |
| Source: | IJMS Vol.40(1) [February 2011]
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