Abstract: It is shown that in order to describe the transfer of gases in the liquid near the air-sea interface, the vertical structure of three-dimensional small-scale turbulence in turbulent patches generated by breaking waves must ...

Abstract: It is shown that an exact analog of Kolmogoroff's spectrum in a random field of weekly nonlinear surface gravity waves gives a spectral form for frequency spectra S(?) ? ??4 in close agreement with the results of recent ...

Abstract: We analyze in detail the budget of total and fluctuating energy in the surface layer of the ocean. We suggest a rational scheme for separating the budget of turbulence from that of random wind-generated surface waves, and ...

Abstract: Based on an interpretation of a field experiment it is argued that, due to breaking of wind waves in deep water, the dissipation of energy is restricted to a range of frequencies ? > ?g, much higher than the frequency ?m ...

Abstract: We present the results of an analysis of field data collected by Donelan who used a miniature drag sphere to measure velocities beneath wind waves on Lake Ontario. Linear statistical techniques are used to separate the ...

Abstract: The dissipation of kinetic energy at the surface of natural water bodies has important consequences for many Physical and biochemical processes including wave dynamics, gas transfer, mixing of nutrients and pollutants, and ...

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