Deducing Air-Sea Fluxes From CBLAST Dropwindsonde Data

Abstract

Our ultimate objective is to understand and be able to predict changes in the intensities of hurricanes and to understand and be able to predict surface fluxes of enthalpy and momentum at hurricane wind speeds.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2008
Accession Number
ADA532798

Entities

People

  • Kerry Emanuel

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Angular Momentum
  • Coefficients
  • Cyclones
  • Energy
  • Energy Transfer
  • Enthalpy
  • Heat Of Vaporization
  • Hurricanes
  • Intensity
  • Latent Heat
  • Measurement
  • Momentum
  • Sea Surface Temperature
  • Storms
  • Surface Temperature
  • Tropical Cyclones

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

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