Rain-induced turbulence and air-sea gas transfer

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 114, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Zappa, Christopher J ^a   Ho, David T ^d   McGillis, Wade R ^a,g   Banner, Michael L ^a   Dacey, John W H ^c   Bliven, Larry F ^b   Ma, Barry ^e   Nystuen, Jeff ^f  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^e Portland State University   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^g Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; FLUID DYNAMICS; GASES; RAIN; TURBULENCE; TURBULENCE MODELS;

AIR WATER INTERFACES; AIR-SEA INTERFACE; BIOSPHERE 2; BREAKING WAVES; CAUSAL RELATIONSHIPS; DISCRETE VALUES; DROP SIZE DISTRIBUTION; FLUX TECHNIQUE; GAS EXCHANGE; GAS TRANSFER; HIGH RESOLUTION; HYDRODYNAMIC MEASUREMENTS; NEAR-SURFACE; PREDICTIVE MODELING; RAIN EVENTS; RAIN RATES; SURFACE VALUES; TRANSFER VELOCITY; TURBULENCE CONTROLS; TURBULENT DISSIPATION RATES; TURBULENT STATE; VERTICAL MIXING;

PHASE INTERFACES;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; BIOSPHERE; BREAKING WAVE; DROPLET; ENERGY DISSIPATION; GAS EXCHANGE; HYDRODYNAMICS; KINETIC ENERGY; RAINFALL; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; STRATIFICATION; TRACER; TURBULENCE;

EID: 70349679009     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JC005008     Document Type: Article

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