Wave-coherent air-sea heat flux

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 788-802

  Veron, Fabrice ^a   Melville, W Kendall ^b   Lenain, Luc ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; BIOCONVERSION; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID MECHANICS; FLUXES; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; HEATING EQUIPMENT; MICROFLUIDICS; MODULATION; MOMENTUM; MOMENTUM TRANSFER; NANOFLUIDICS; OCEAN CURRENTS; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WAVES; SURFACES; THERMOANALYSIS; WATER WAVES;

(1 1 0) SURFACE; AIR SEA HEAT FLUXES; AIR-SEA FLUXES; COHERENT COMPONENTS; GENERAL CIRCULATION; GOOD RESEARCH; LATENT HEAT FLUX (LHF); PHASE RELATIONSHIPS; SURFACE DISPLACEMENTS; THREE FIELD EXPERIMENTS; WAVE FIELDS; WIDE-RANGE; WIND SPEED (WS);

WAVES;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; HEAT BUDGET; HEAT TRANSFER; HUMIDITY; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MOMENTUM TRANSFER; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SURFACE WAVE; WAVE FIELD; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 45749146289     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JPO3682.1     Document Type: Article

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