Prior to joing BAS I worked at the University of Toronto, Canada
with
Prof. Kent Moore . We were heavily involved in the
Labrador Sea Deep Convection Experiment.
The experiment was aimed at observing deep ocean convection, an
important component in the earth's climate system, through a mixture
of meteorological and oceanographic observations, theory, laboratory studies
and numerical modelling. We were lucky
enough to do some aircraft meteorology during the experiment - some
tales from the front line are on this website.
My Lab. Sea work has
resulted in a series of papers on air-sea interaction during cold,
atmospherically unstable conditions. We have analysed aircraft and ship
data to determined the best estimates of air-sea heat fluxes, then compared
these with NWP estimates. In the case of the NCEP/NCAR reanalysis comparison
a serious discrepancy was found, and the cause was determined to be
due to poor roughness length formulations. More details can be found in:
Krahmann, G., M. Visbeck, W. Smethie, Eric A. D'Asaro, Peter B. Rhines,
R. Allyn Clarke, John Lazier, Russ E. Davis, Pearn P. Niiler, Peter S.
Guest, Jens Meincke, G. W. Kent Moore, Robert S. Pickart, W. Brechner
Owens, Mark D. Prater, Ian A. Renfrew, Friedrich A. Schott, 2003: The
Labrador Sea Deep Convection Experiment data collection, GEOCHEMISTRY
GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS, 4, (10), 1091, doi:10.1029/2003GC000536.
Please download a reprint.
Moore G. W. K. and I. A. Renfrew, 2002: An assessment of the surface
turbulent heat fluxes from the NCEP reanalysis over the western
boundary currents. J. Climate, 15, 2020-2037.
Please download a reprint, or contact Kent
or myself for one.
Renfrew, I. A. , G. W. K. Moore, P. S. Guest, and K. Bumke, 2002:
A comparison of surface layer and surface turbulent flux
observations over the Labrador Sea with ECMWF analyses and NCEP
reanalyses, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 32, 383-400.
Please download a
reprint, or contact me for one.
Note unfortunately there is a typo in the final paper,
the coefficients in eqns. (A8) and (A9) should be swapped.
Renfrew, I. A. and G. W. K. Moore, 1999:
An extreme cold air outbreak over the Labrador Sea: roll
vortices and air-sea interaction, Mon. Wea. Rev., 127, 2379-2394.
Please download a reprint,
or contact me for one.
Renfrew, I. A., G. W. K. Moore, T. D. Holt, S.W. Chang, and P. Guest, 1999:
Mesoscale forecasting during a field program:
Meteorological support of the Labrador Sea Deep Convection Experiment,
Bull. Amer. Met., Soc.,80, 605-620.
Featuring our wonderful front cover, please download a
reprint, or contact me for one.
LabSea Group, The, 1998: The Labrador Sea Deep Convection
Experiment. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 79, 2033-2058.
Please download a pdf reprint.