Charnock dynamics: A model for the velocity structure in the wave boundary layer of the air-sea interface

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 31-42

  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

DRAG COEFFICIENT; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WATER WAVES;

AIR-SEA MOMENTUM EXCHANGE; INERTIAL COUPLING;

BOUNDARY LAYERS;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; DRAG COEFFICIENT; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WATER WAVES;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; COUPLING; DRAG COEFFICIENT; MODELING; MOMENTUM TRANSFER; SHEAR; WAVE; WIND-WAVE INTERACTION;

EID: 40149096712     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: 16167228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-007-0130-5     Document Type: Article

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