Relative rates of sea-air heat transfer and frictional drag in very high winds

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Haus, Brian K ^a   Jeong, Dahai ^a   Donelan, Mark A ^a   Zhang, Jun A ^b   Savelyev, Ivan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER   (United States)

^c NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERFACE; COEFFICIENT RATIOS; EYEWALL; FRICTIONAL DRAG; HIGH WINDS; HURRICANE INTENSITY; OCEAN SURFACES; RELATIVE RATES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL; TRANSFER COEFFICIENT; VORTEX DYNAMICS;

DRAG; FRICTION; OCEANOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WIND;

HURRICANES;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; DRAG; ENERGY FLUX; EVAPORATION; HEAT TRANSFER; HURRICANE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VORTEX FLOW; WIND PROFILE;

EID: 77950484888     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL042206     Document Type: Article

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