Marine Boundary-Layer and Air-Sea Interaction

Abstract

The long-terms goals of the research are to understand and parameterize the physics of air-sea interaction and the marine boundary layer over a wide spectrum of weather and ocean conditions. The main objectives of this effort are to study the air-sea interaction under different conditions: cold air outbreaks in the Japan/East Sea experiment, trade winds off the east coast of Oahu, Hawaii during the Rough Evaporation Duct experiment (RED), stratocumulus marine layer off the central coast of California during the Cloud-Aerosol Research in the Marine Atmosphere I,II & III (CARMA I, CARMA II & CARMA III ) and the summertime mostly stable boundary-layer south of Martha s Vineyard, Massachusetts during the Coupled Boundary Layers/Air-Sea Transfer (CBLAST Low winds) We are primarily interested in the characterization of boundary-layer structure, the measurement of momentum, heat and water vapor (latent heat) air-sea fluxes, the determination of their spatial variability as well as their parameterization.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2006
Accession Number
ADA613576

Entities

People

  • Djamal Khelif

Organizations

  • University of California, Irvine

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Atmospheres
  • Boundaries
  • Boundary Layer
  • California
  • Data Sets
  • Heat Energy
  • Heat Flux
  • Instrumentation
  • Latent Heat
  • Layers
  • Light Scattering
  • Marine Atmospheres
  • Measurement
  • Oceans
  • Research Aircraft
  • Water Vapor

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

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