Spatial Variations of the Wave, Stress, and Wind Fields in the Shoaling Zone

Abstract

Our long-term goals are to improve parameterization of surface fluxes in the coastal zone in the presence of wave growth, shoaling, and internal boundary layer development. These goals include improving the present form of similarity theory used by models to predict surface fluxes and stress over water surfaces, and documenting development of internal boundary layers in the coastal zone that are currently not modelled correctly, particularly in cases of flow of warm air over colder water.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2001
Accession Number
ADA628090

Entities

People

  • Jielun Sun

Organizations

  • National Center for Atmospheric Research

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Atmospheric Motion
  • Boundaries
  • Boundary Layer
  • Doppler Effect
  • Energy Transfer
  • Laser Altimeters
  • Layers
  • Measurement
  • Momentum Transfer
  • Surface Waves
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar
  • Turbulence
  • Two Dimensional
  • Wave Propagation
  • Waves
  • Wind

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

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