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, 2005
Accession Number
ADA572430

Entities

People

  • Edgar L. Andreas

Organizations

  • Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Aqueous Solutions
  • Barometric Pressure
  • Chemical Properties
  • Cold Regions
  • Heat Energy
  • Heat Flux
  • Heat Of Vaporization
  • Latent Heat
  • Models
  • Moisture
  • Momentum
  • Pressure Gradients
  • Scale Models
  • Sea Surface Temperature
  • Simulations
  • Surface Temperature

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation