Wave-driven wind jets in the marine atmospheric boundary layer

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2646-2660

  Hanley, Kirsty E ^a   Belcher, Stephen E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; DRAG REDUCTION; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID MECHANICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; METEOROLOGY; MOMENTUM TRANSFER; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; PHASE INTERFACES; SPEED; SURFACE WAVES; TROPOSPHERE; WATER WAVES; WAVES; WIND EFFECTS;

WAVE AGE; WAVE-INDUCED STRESSES;

MOMENTUM;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; CORIOLIS FORCE; EKMAN LAYER; MODELING; MOMENTUM TRANSFER; WIND-WAVE INTERACTION;

EID: 51749088555     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JAS2562.1     Document Type: Article

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