On Relationship Between Temperature Anomalies of the Underlying Surface and Perturbations in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer over the Sea

A. A. Postnov and E. A. Stulov

From Special aircraft observations over a termally inhomogeneous surface, empirical relations have been obtained between characteristics of mesoscale temperature perturbutations of the underlying surface, on the one hand, and the amplitude of temperature and wind perturbations in the atmospheric boundary layer, on the other. The relations are used for estimating the influence of sea-surface temperature anomalies on the state of the marine atmospheric boundary layer for variations of background conditions (vertical stability of the atmosphere and wind) occurring in different parts of cyclones and anticyclones.