Air-Sea Flux Estimation in High Wind Boundary Layers

Abstract

Our primary goal is to improve our understanding of air-sea surface flux processes in high winds specifically in the complex conditions of tropical hurricanes where swell, sea spray and secondary boundary layer circulations play a role. Our ultimate goal and prime motivation for this work is to parameterize these new observations and improve the accuracy of hurricane intensity prediction.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2001
Accession Number
ADA625755

Entities

People

  • David J. Mclaughlin
  • Gustavo J. Goni
  • Jeffrey R. French
  • Paul S Chang
  • Peter G. Black
  • Robert A. Black
  • Timothy L. Crawford
  • William M. Drennan

Organizations

  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Atmospheric Motion
  • Boundary Layer
  • Enthalpy
  • Heat Energy
  • Latent Heat
  • Layers
  • Measurement
  • Observation
  • Radar
  • Sea Surface Temperature
  • Surface Temperature
  • Teamwork
  • Three Dimensional
  • Tropical Cyclones
  • Turbulence
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

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