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RISThe Mathematical Representation of Wind Speed and Temperature Profiles in the Unstable Atmospheric Surface Layer
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Analytical expressions which specify non-dimensionalized wind speed and potential temperature gradients as functions of stability are integrated. The integrated equations are tested against Swinhank's wind and temperature ...
Statistics of Surface Layer Turbulence over the Tropical Ocean
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Atmospheric surface layer turbulent statistics measured during the Barbados Oceanographic and Meteorological Experiment 8 and 30 m above mean sea level are presented. The budget equations of turbulent kinetic energy, ...
Air-Sea Transfer of Momentum, Heat and Water Determined from Profile Measurements During BOMEX
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: One hundred forty-one simultaneous wind speed, temperature and humidity profiles measured during the Barbados Oceanographic and Meteorological Experiment (BOMEX) are analyzed. The observations were from heights 2?11 m above ...
An Analysis of 20 Years of Meteorological and Oceanographic Data from Ocean Station N
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Meteorological and oceanographic data for Ocean Station Vessel N (30N, 14OW) are analyzed over 20 years (1951?70) and 7 years (1964?70), respectively. A rainfall estimate is constructed for the 20-year period. The yearly ...
The Effect of Rainfall on the Surface Layer during a Westerly Wind Burst in the Western Equatorial Pacific
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Measurements of a fresh surface anomaly (fresh lens) produced by rainfall during a westerly wind burst have been analyzed. The measurements were made in December 1992 as part of the Coupled Ocean?Atmosphere Response ...
Turbulence and Internal Waves at the Equator. Part I: Statistics from Towed Thermistors and a Microstructure Profiler
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: High correlations between turbulent dissipation rates and high-wavenumber internal waves and the high values of turbulent dissipation associated with internal wave activity suggest that internal waves are the main direct ...
Turbulence and Internal Waves at the Equator. Part II: Details of a Single Event
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: In the low Richardson number shear flow above the Pacific Equatorial Undercurrent, a single vertical microstructure profile intersected the overturning crest of a packet of high horizontal wavenumber waves. The observed ...
Does Ocean Turbulence Peak at the Equator?
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A 3°N to 3°S transect of the equator at 140°15'W was made in November 1984. Vertical profiles of temperature, conductivity and turbulent dissipation were obtained at approximately 1 km intervals. Contrary to previous ...
Internal Waves, Dynamic Instabilities, and Turbulence in the Equatorial Thermocline: An Introduction to Three Papers in this Issue
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Appearing in this issue of the Journal of Physical Oceanography are three papers that present new observations of a distinct, narrow band, and diurnally varying signal in temperature records obtained in the low Richardson ...