Modeling Turbulent Air-Sea Exchange in High Winds

Abstract

The goal is to investigate, theoretically and through analyzing existing data, the role that sea spray plays in transferring heat, moisture, and momentum across the air-sea interface, especially in high winds. Ultimately, I plan to develop simple, fast, physics-based parameterizations for these air-sea fluxes for use in large-scale models, especially those simulating tropical and extratropical storms.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2007
Accession Number
ADA550262

Entities

People

  • Edgar L. Andreas

Organizations

  • Northwest Research Associates

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Temperature
  • Algorithms
  • Atmospheres
  • Data Sets
  • Heat Energy
  • Heat Flux
  • Heat Of Vaporization
  • Latent Heat
  • Measurement
  • Models
  • Moisture
  • Momentum
  • Scale Models
  • Sea Surface Temperature
  • Simulations
  • Surface Temperature
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science / Meteorology, specifically Wind Wave Turbulence.
  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)