Aerodynamic roughness of the sea surface at high winds

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 289-303

  Kudryavtsev, Vladimir N ^a,b   Makin, Vladimir K ^c  

^a Nansen International Environmental and Remote Sensing Center   (Russian Federation)

^b NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER   (Norway)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Breaking wind waves; High wind conditions; Sead rag; Separation of the air flow

Indexed keywords

DRAG; FLOW SEPARATION; PARAMETERIZATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WIND;

AERODYNAMIC ROUGHNESS; HIGH WIND CONDITIONS; SEAD RAG; WIND-OVER-WAVES COUPLING THEORY;

AERODYNAMICS;

AERODYNAMICS; DRAG; FLOW SEPARATION; PARAMETERIZATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WIND;

AERODYNAMICS; AIRFLOW; BREAKING WAVE; DRAG COEFFICIENT; ENERGY FLUX; SEA SURFACE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WIND VELOCITY; WIND WAVE;

EID: 34848847772     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-007-9184-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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