Prediction of the drag law for air-sea momentum exchange

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 577-580

  Bye, John A T ^a   Wolff, Jörg Olaf ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

10 m drag coefficient; Air sea momentum exchange; Inertial coupling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SHEAR STRESS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TURBULENCE; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WIND EFFECTS;

10-M DRAG COEFFICIENT; AIR-SEA MOMENTUM EXCHANGE; INERTIAL COUPLING; WIND WAVES;

BOUNDARY LAYERS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; DRAG COEFFICIENT; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; MOMENTUM TRANSFER; WIND WAVE;

EID: 10844295800     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: 16167228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-004-0105-8     Document Type: Article

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