Further Experiments with an Hurricane-Ocean Interaction Model.

Abstract

Modifications were made to Corgnati's (1971) steady state, symmetrical hurricane model, which was based on a model proposed by Riehl (1963), and in which bulk aerodynamic transfer formulas were used to predict the air-sea interaction below a specified vortex. The modifications resulted in a more flexible model in which hurricane intensity was controlled by sensible and latent heat fluxes, which were in turn dependent on the ocean surface temperature. A boundary layer model based on similarity theory was then used, to specify air-sea interaction, by replacing the bulk transfer formulas with Cardone's (1969) extension of Blackadar's (1965) two-layer neutral, baroclinic boundary layer model. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1972
Accession Number
AD0753620

Entities

People

  • Nils Alexander Silliman Pearson

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundaries
  • Boundary Layer
  • Heat Energy
  • Heat Flux
  • Hurricanes
  • Intensity
  • Latent Heat
  • Layers
  • Steady State
  • Surface Temperature

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers