Measurements of ocean surface turbulence and wave-turbulence interactions

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2310-2323

  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 SEA FLUX; EXCHANGE PROCESS; FREE SURFACES; LANGMUIR TURBULENCE; LOWER ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYERS; MOLECULAR LAYER; MULTIPLE INTERACTIONS; OCEAN SURFACES; ON TIME; RAPID DISTORTION THEORY; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS; SURFACE LAYERS; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SURFACE TURBULENCE; SURFACE VELOCITY; SURFACE WAVE FIELDS; TIME-SCALES; VISCOUS LAYERS; VORTICITY FIELD; WAVE PERIOD; WAVE-TURBULENCE INTERACTION;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE CONTROL; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SURFACE WAVES; TROPOSPHERE; TURBULENCE; VORTICITY; WATER WAVES;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; BOUNDARY CONDITION; BOUNDARY LAYER; HEAT FLUX; MEASUREMENT METHOD; OCEAN WAVE; SEA SURFACE; TURBULENCE; WAVE FIELD;

EID: 73949153409     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JPO4019.1     Document Type: Article

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