A Strong Wind Experiment in Support of the CBLAST Hurricane Study
Abstract
The long-term objective is to improve the understanding the physics of the boundary layers of the Ocean-Atmosphere coupled system under strong wind conditions, by making careful measurements of winds, waves, ocean currents and mixed layer thermal structure with a three dimensional array of surface drifters. This will lead to a better knowledge of the heat and the momentum budgets, mesoscale divergence and vorticity field, shear in the upper 100 m and biological response to the intense mixing regimes that are expected in the upper ocean.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 30, 2003
- Accession Number
- ADA628682
Entities
People
- Pearn P. Niiler
Organizations
- Scripps Institution of Oceanography