Abstract: Stability parameters and wind-stress coefficients under various atmospheric conditions are related to wind velocity and air-sea temperature difference. Readily applicable formulae, without iterative computations, of ...

Abstract: The thickness of the oceanic thermal layer is considered to be one-half of the viscous-sublayer thickness, which decreases as the wind velocity increases. The thermal-layer thickness is estimated to be between 4 and 0.25 ...

Abstract: Friction velocities of pulsating winds were measured, as well as slope and curvature distributions of thedisturbed water surface. The results obtained with the same average wind speed, but with pulsations of various ...

Abstract: The increase of the wind-stress coefficient with wind velocity was found to start with winds as light as 3 m s?1, below which, following the formula for aerodynamically smooth flows, the wind-stress coefficient decreases ...

Abstract: Wind, driving oceans, and the links between them to the atmosphere compose a critical parameter for the world circulation model as well as for the evaluation of climate changes. Traditionally, wind velocities have been ...

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Abstract: A scaling law of wind-stress coefficients is presented to illustrate explicitly that the coefficient increases with wind velocity and decreases with fetch; physical reasonings of both trends are discussed. Besides being ...

Abstract: The rate of air?sea gas transfer has been largely parameterized on the basis of studies performed in laboratory tanks: empirical formulas are proposed for three wind-velocity regions. Observed features of the transfer in ...

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Abstract: An altimeter wind algorithm that was proposed earlier and deduced on the basis of microwave specular reflections from the sea surface is discussed. This algorithm is further tuned overall with buoy-measured winds; it is ...