The importance of humidity effect in determining flux-profile parameters of a marine surface layer

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 978-986

  Lo, Aloysius Koufang ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; AIR/SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC STRATIFICATION; HUMIDITY; HUMIDITY FLUX; MARINE BOUNDARY LAYER; OCEANIC BOUNDARY LAYER;

EID: 0030463190     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(1996)035<0978:tiohei>2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. Blanc, T. V., 1983: Typical influences of moisture on profile measurements in the marine atmospheric surface layer. Bound-Layer Meteor., 25, 411-415.
2. Byun, D. W., 1990: On the analytical solutions of flux-profile relationships for the atmospheric surface layer. J. Appl. Meteor., 29, 652-657.
3. Geernaert, G. L., 1990: Bulk parameterizations for the wind stress and heat flux. Surfaces Waves and Fluxes: Theory and Remote Sensing, Vol. 1, G. Geernaert and W. Plant, Eds., Kluwer, 91-172.
4. _, and S. Larsen, 1993: On the role of humidity in estimating marine surface layer stratification and scatterometer cross section. J. Geophys. Res. 98 (C1), 927-932.
5. Lo, A. K., 1993: The direct calculation of fluxes and profiles in the marine surface layer using measurements from a single atmospheric level. J. Appl. Meteor., 32, 1890-1990.
6. Smith, S. D., 1988: Coefficients for sea surface wind stress, heat flux, and wind profiles as a function of wind speed and temperature. J. Geophys. Res., 93, 15 467-15 472.
7. Walmsley, J. L., 1988: On theoretical wind speed and temperature profiles over the sea with applications to data from Sable Island, Nova Scotia. Atmos.-Ocean, 26(2), 203-233.