Abstract: bservations of the heat flux over the open sea and in the coastal zone are analyzed to reexamine the relation of the heat flux to the air?sea temperature difference and wind speed. The study begins by examining problems ...

Abstract: he authors analyze the influence of waves on the budgets of momentum flux and kinetic energy in the atmospheric flow over sea surface waves and use the findings to reinterpret the results from the earlier empirical studies ...

Abstract: AbstractThe wave-coherent momentum flux and velocity variances are investigated using a theoretical model and open-ocean measurements. The spectrum-integrated wave-coherent (SIWC) momentum flux and velocity variances decay ...

Abstract: AbstractOur study analyzes measurements primarily from two Floating Instrument Platform (FLIP) field programs and from the Air?Sea Interaction Tower (ASIT) site to examine the relationship between the wind and sea surface ...

Abstract: Platform motion contaminates turbulence statistics measured in the surface layer over the ocean and therefore adds uncertainty to the understanding and parameterization of air?sea exchange. A modification to the platform ...

Abstract: Winds and waves in marine boundary layers are often in an unsettled state when fast-running swell generated by distant storms propagates into local regions and modifies the overlying turbulent fields. A large-eddy simulation ...

Abstract: In the surface layer over the ocean the Monin?Obukhov similarity theory is often applied to construct vertical profiles of pressure, temperature, humidity, and wind speed. In this context, the rough boundary layer is derived ...

Abstract: The Office of Naval Research's Coupled Boundary Layers and Air?Sea Transfer (CBLAST) program is being conducted to investigate the processes that couple the marine boundary layers and govern the exchange of heat, mass, and ...