Impacts of Ocean Waves on the Atmospheric Surface Layer: Simulations and Observations

Abstract

This this award investigated surface boundary layers and air-sea interaction with theoretical and numerical research. Our long term scientific objective was to explore the nature of intermittence, coherent structures, and turbulent fluxes and their coupling in the surface layers of the marine atmospheric and oceanic planetary boundary layers (PBL). Efforts were focused on the effects of surface gravity waves on the near-surface dynamics, surface fluxes, and coupling between the atmospheric and oceanic PBLs. The final results of this work are provided in 2 journal articles and a reviewed meeting paper.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 06, 2008
Accession Number
ADA482362

Entities

People

  • James C. McWilliams
  • Ken Melville
  • Peter P Sullivan

Organizations

  • National Center for Atmospheric Research

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundary Layer
  • Buoyancy
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Convection
  • Energy Transfer
  • Flow Visualization
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Grids
  • Ocean Currents
  • Ocean Waves
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Reynolds Number
  • Three Dimensional
  • Turbulence
  • Turbulent Flow
  • Turbulent Mixing

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science
  • Physics

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science / Meteorology, specifically Wind Wave Turbulence.
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