Wind and Wind Stress Measurements in HiRes

Abstract

The long-term goals are to further the understanding of air-sea interaction processes including momentum, heat, water vapor, surface and boundary layer dynamics under various meteorological and oceanographic conditions. The objectives of this grant are to measure and analyze the wind, wind stress and associated quantities at sea in the High Resolution Air-Sea Interaction DRI (HiRes). The practical objectives of Hi-Res are the determination of how well ship-based radars can measure the phase-resolved surface wave field (PRSWF), testing the skill of highly-nonlinear numerical surface wave models to predict the evolution of the PRSWF, and the incorporation of ocean wave effects into models of the Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer (MABL).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2009
Accession Number
ADA527544

Entities

People

  • Carl A. Friehe
  • Jesus Ruiz-plancarte

Organizations

  • University of California, Irvine

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Temperature
  • Anemometers
  • Boundaries
  • Boundary Layer
  • Engineering
  • High Resolution
  • Inertial Navigation
  • Inertial Navigation Systems
  • Measurement
  • Navigation
  • Radiation
  • Solar Radiation
  • Stresses
  • Surface Waves
  • Water Vapor
  • Waves
  • Wind Stress

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

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