Sea Spray Effects on Surface Heat and Moisture Fluxes

Abstract

The goal is to investigate, theoretically and through analyzing existing data, the role that sea spray plays in transferring heat and moisture across the air-sea interface, especially in high winds. Ultimately, we hope to develop simple parameterizations for these air-sea fluxes for use in large-scale models, especially those simulating tropical and extra-tropical storms.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 1999
Accession Number
ADA630853

Entities

People

  • Edgar L. Andreas

Organizations

  • Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundary Layer
  • Cold Regions
  • Cyclones
  • Data Sets
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Energy
  • Engineering
  • Enthalpy
  • Heat Energy
  • Heat Flux
  • Hurricanes
  • Latent Heat
  • Moisture
  • Sea Surface Temperature
  • Surface Temperature
  • Tropical Cyclones
  • Water Vapor

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

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