Abstract: lassical approaches to modeling the near-surface (i.e., below 200 m) wind profile are equilibrium based (i.e., no time evolution) and either lack a physical basis or are based on surface-layer physics. In this study, the ...

Abstract: n this study, the authors contrast the modeling of the wind profile under stable stratification considering both equilibrium (i.e., constant in time) and time-evolving frameworks, as well as one-dimensional (1D) and 3D ...

Abstract: Air?sea exchanges of momentum, energy, and material substances of fundamental importance to the variability of the climate system are mediated by the character of the turbulence in the atmospheric and oceanic boundary ...

Abstract: he statistical predictability of wintertime (December?February) monthly-mean sea surface winds (both vector wind components and wind speed) in the subarctic northeast Pacific off the west coast of Canada is considered, in ...

Abstract: he statistical predictability of wind speed using Gaussian predictors, relative to the predictability of orthogonal vector wind components, is considered. With the assumption that the vector wind components are Gaussian, ...

Abstract: he temporal autocorrelation structures of sea surface vector winds and wind speeds are considered. Analyses of scatterometer and reanalysis wind data demonstrate that the autocorrelation functions (acf) of surface zonal ...

Abstract: A nonlinear generalization of principal component analysis (PCA), denoted nonlinear principal component analysis (NLPCA), is implemented in a variational framework using a five-layer autoassociative feed-forward neural ...

Abstract: he stability analysis of stratified parallel shear flows is fundamental to investigations of the onset of turbulence in atmospheric and oceanic datasets. The stability analysis is performed by considering the behavior of ...

Abstract: Salinity dynamics in a simple two-box model of the thermohaline circulation (THC) is considered. The model parameterizes fluctuating eddy transport and buoyancy forcing by two independent stochastic processes. The associated ...

Abstract: The probability distribution of sea surface wind speeds, w, is considered. Daily SeaWinds scatterometer observations are used for the characterization of the moments of sea surface winds on a global scale. These observations ...