The FETCH experiment: An overview

doi:doi:10.1029/2001JC001202

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The FETCH experiment: An overview

D. Hauser

Centre d'Etude des Environnements Terrestre et Planétaires (CETP)/Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)/University of Versailles, Paris, France

H. Branger

IRPHE/Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)/University of Marseille, Marseille, France

S. Bouffies-Cloché

Centre d'Etude des Environnements Terrestre et Planétaires (CETP)/Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)/University of Versailles, Paris, France

S. Despiau

LEPI/University of Toulon, La Valette, France

W. M. Drennan

Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, USA

H. Dupuis

DGO/Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)/University of Bordeaux 1, Talence, France

P. Durand

CNRM/Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)/Météo-France, Toulouse, France

X. Durrieu de Madron

CEFREM/Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University Paul Sabatier, Perpignan, France

C. Estournel

Laboratoire d'Aérologie/Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France

L. Eymard

Centre d'Etude des Environnements Terrestre et Planétaires (CETP)/Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)/University of Versailles, Paris, France

C. Flamant

Service d'Aéronomie/Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)/University of Paris 6, Paris, France

H. C. Graber

Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, USA

C. Guérin

Centre d'Etude des Environnements Terrestre et Planétaires (CETP)/Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)/University of Versailles, Paris, France

K. Kahma

Finnish Institute of Marine Research, Helsinki, Finland

G. Lachaud

CNRM/Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)/Météo-France, Toulouse, France

J.-M. Lefèvre

Marine Forecast Service/Météo-France, Toulouse, France

J. Pelon

Service d'Aéronomie/Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)/University of Paris 6, Paris, France

H. Pettersson

Finnish Institute of Marine Research, Helsinki, Finland

B. Piguet

CNRM/Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)/Météo-France, Toulouse, France

P. Queffeulou

IFREMER, Brest, France

D. Tailliez

LPCM/Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)/University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, Villefranche sur Mer, France

J. Tournadre

IFREMER, Brest, France

A. Weill

Centre d'Etude des Environnements Terrestre et Planétaires (CETP)/Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)/University of Versailles, Paris, France

The “flux, etat de la mer, et télédétection en conditions de fetch variable” (FETCH) was aimed at studying the physical processes associated with air–sea exchanges and mesoscale oceanic circulation in a coastal region dominated by frequent strong offshore winds. The experiment took place in March–April 1998 in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea (Gulf of Lion). Observations were collected with the R/V L'Atalante, with an air–sea interaction spar (ASIS) buoy, with waverider buoys, and with research aircraft equipped for in situ and remote sensing measurements. The present paper is an introduction to the following special section, which groups 12 papers (including this one) presenting results on turbulent flux measurements at the ocean surface, on the behavior of the marine atmospheric boundary layer, on the ocean waves characteristics, on the ocean circulation, and on remote sensing of surface parameters. This overview presents the background and objectives of FETCH, the experimental setup and operations, and the dominant atmospheric and oceanic conditions and introduces the different papers of the special section.

Published 13 February 2003.

Citation: Hauser, D., et al. (2003), The FETCH experiment: An overview, J. Geophys. Res., 108(C3), 8053, doi:10.1029/2001JC001202.

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