نبذة مختصرة : Sea surface temperature (SST) is an important variable in the study of ocean boundary layers and heat exchange. The accurate simulation and measurement of skin effects are vital to air–sea model processing and satellite SST retrieval. Shipboard measurements from eleven cruises in the Northwest Pacific between August 2015 and October 2018 were used to estimate the cool skin effect and compare model results. The temperature difference Δ T between the sea surface skin temperature (SST skin ), as measured by an infrared radiometer, and the sea surface depth temperature (SST depth ) at around 4 meters showed a mean difference and a standard deviation of the same 0.2 K, with a total of 5-min 39909 measurements. Both daytime and nighttime Δ T values were compared to physical model simulations and were found to have relatively larger mean values. A set of new coefficients for an exponential parameterization of the cool skin effect was derived in the research area, which performed well in comparison to previous empirical models. In nighttime observations from two summer cruises, the reverse process of heat flux transfer from the air to the sea in the form of a warm skin was distinguished. There were 667 positive Δ T values out of the 1917 nighttime observations, with magnitudes ranging from around 0 to 0.3 K. A high proportion of the cases of the warm skin phenomenon occurred when the air was very humid and much warmer than the sea surface.
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