The effect of wind-wave-current interaction on air-sea momentum fluxes and ocean response in tropical cyclones

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1019-1034

  Fan, Yalin ^a   Ginis, Isaac ^a   Hara, Tetsu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERFACE; AIR-SEA MOMENTUM FLUX; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; KEY ELEMENTS; MODELING APPROACH; MOMENTUM FLUX; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; OCEAN RESPONSE; PEAK FREQUENCIES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; SURFACE WAVE FIELDS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WAVE BOUNDARY LAYER MODEL; WAVE CURRENT INTERACTION; WAVE ENERGY; WAVE PROPAGATION DIRECTION; WAVE SPECTRA; WAVEFIELD; WIND SPEED;

ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; FLUID DYNAMICS; HURRICANES; MOMENTUM; OCEAN ENGINEERING; STORMS; SURFACE WAVES; WATER WAVES; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; NUMERICAL METHOD; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPATIAL VARIATION; SURFACE WAVE; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WAVE DIRECTION; WAVE ENERGY; WAVE FIELD; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVE-CURRENT INTERACTION; WIND VELOCITY; WIND-WAVE INTERACTION;

EID: 67649961174     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JPO4066.1     Document Type: Article

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