Estimation of marine meteorological parameters from the satellite data

The simple estimation methods of air temperature and specific humidity at the sea surface are investigated using buoy and satellite data. Air temperature and specific humidity obtained by the regression equations are validated through the comparison with sea truth data. And also in order to certify this method, sensible and latent heat fluxes are compared with those of other methods. Bias of air temperature with MCSST is 0.28 degC with 1.5 degC rmse and 0.98 correlation coefficient. Specific humidity estimated indirectly using buoys data shows also fairly good result in terms of -1.42 g kg/sup -1/ bias and 1.75 g kg/sup -1/ rmse, correlation coefficient 0.97. The statistical results for sensible and latent heat fluxes calculated using the marine meteorological elements which are derived by the present method are comparable with those of previous studies.