Spatio-temporal variability of surface-layer turbulent fluxes over the Bay of Bengal and Arabian sea during the ICARB field experiment

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 297-309

  Alappattu, Denny P ^a   Subrahamanyam, D Bala ^a   Kunhikrishnan, P K ^a   Ramachandran, Radhika ^a   Somayaji, K M ^b   Venkatesh, R ^b   Bhat, G S ^c   Singh, A Bhagavath ^b  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

^b INDIRA GANDHI CENTRE FOR ATOMIC RESEARCH   (India)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Air Sea interaction; Air Sea interface fluxes; Bulk aerodynamic method; Integrated Campaign for Aerosols gases and Radiation Budget (ICARB); Marine atmospheric boundary layer; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; DRAG COEFFICIENT; HEAT FLUX; LATENT HEAT; METEOROLOGY; MOISTURE; MOMENTUM; WIND STRESS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; MARINE ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; WIND SPEED;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE;

AERODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; DRAG COEFFICIENT; HEAT FLUX; LATENT HEAT; METEOROLOGY; MOISTURE; MOMENTUM; WIND STRESS;

AERODYNAMICS; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; DATABASE; DRAG COEFFICIENT; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SURFACE LAYER; TURBULENCE; WIND STRESS;

ARABIAN SEA; BAY OF BENGAL; INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 38649100349     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-007-9233-2     Document Type: Article

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