[NARCCAP-discuss] Sea Surface Temperatures (SST) in NARCCAP

[Darrin Sharp]

What's the difference between tas (table 2) and ts (table 3) over the  
land, other than that tas is at 2m and ts is at the interface? Is ts  
over the land still a GCM input, while tas is computed by the regional  
model?

-Darrin

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Darrin Sharp
Faculty Research Assistant
Oregon Climate Change Research Inst. (OCCRI)
dsharp at coas.oregonstate.edu
970-219-6713

On May 19, 2011, at 1:39 PM, Seth McGinnis wrote:

> Hi Darrin,
>
> Yes, it is.
>
> The SSTs are an input from the GCMs, so we don't store them  
> separately as an
> output,  but over the oceans, surface/skin temperature (variable ts  
> in Table 3)
> should be the same as the input sea-surface temperature.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --Seth
>
>
> On Wed, 18 May 2011 16:53:31 -0700
> Darrin Sharp <dsharp at coas.oregonstate.edu> wrote:
>> I don't see SST's explicitly listed as a parameter in NARCCAP.
>> However, in Tbl 3 there is a "surface (skin) temperature". Is this  
>> the
>> same thing (when over the ocean, of course) as the SST?
>>
>> -Darrin
>>
>> ======================================
>> Darrin Sharp
>> Faculty Research Assistant
>> Oregon Climate Change Research Inst. (OCCRI)
>> dsharp at coas.oregonstate.edu
>> 970-219-6713
>
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