PRO COEF, SST, KL19, KL37, KV19, KV37, TOX19, TOX37 ; ; This subroutine calculates the absorption coefficients and ; the oxygen transmission at 19 and 37 GHz given the SST and ; parameterizing the effective cloud emission temperature. ; ; INPUT: ; SST - Sea surface temperature in Kelvin (for a ; particular grid box) ; OUTPUT: ; KL19 - Liquid water mass absorption coefficient at 19 GHz [m^2/kg] ; KL37 - Liquid water mass absorption coefficient at 37 GHz [m^2/kg] ; KV19 - Water vapor mass absorption coefficient at 19 GHz [m^2/kg] ; KV37 - Water vapor mass absorption coefficient at 37 GHz [m^2/kg] ; TOX19 - Oxygen transmission at 19 GHz ; TOX37 - Oxygen transmission at 37 GHz ; ; REAL SST,KL19,KL37,KV19,KV37,TOX19,TOX37 ; ; Set effective cloud emission temp TC = SST - 6. ; Compute liquid water mass absorption coefficients (m**2/kg) ; From Petty Ph.D. dissertation, 1990 TCEL = TC - 273.15 KL19 = 0.0786 - 0.230E-2*TCEL + 0.448E-4*TCEL^2 - $ 0.464E-6*TCEL^3 KL37 = 0.267 - 0.673E-2*TCEL + 0.975E-4*TCEL^2 - $ 0.724E-6*TCEL^3 ; Water vapor absoprtion coefficient and oxygen transmittance ; taken from Greenwald et al. (1993). TSCEL = SST - 273.15 TOX19 = 0.9779 -6.314E-5 * TSCEL + 7.746E-6 * TSCEL^2 - $ 1.003E-7 * TSCEL^3 TOX37 = 0.9269 -8.525E-5 * TSCEL + 1.807E-5 * TSCEL^2 - $ 2.008E-7 * TSCEL^3 KV19 = 2.58E-3 * (300./SST)^0.477 KV37 = 2.12E-3 END