Effects of Bubbles and Sea Spray on Air-Sea Exchange in Hurricane Conditions

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 136, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 365-376

  Soloviev, Alexander ^a   Lukas, Roger ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Air sea interface; Drag coefficient; Hurricane; Kelvin Helmholtz instability; Marginal stability

Indexed keywords

AIR BUBBLES; AIR-SEA EXCHANGE; AIR-SEA INTERFACE; BREAK-UP; KELVIN-HELMHOLTZ INSTABILITIES; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LOWER LIMITS; MARGINAL STABILITY; SEA SPRAY; TURBULENCE CHARACTERISTICS; UPPER LIMITS; WAVE RESISTANCE;

DRAG COEFFICIENT; HELMHOLTZ EQUATION; HURRICANE EFFECTS; HURRICANE RESISTANCE; HYDRODYNAMICS; PHASE INTERFACES; PHASE TRANSITIONS; STABILITY;

DRAG;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; DRAG COEFFICIENT; HURRICANE; KELVIN-HELMHOLTZ INSTABILITY; TURBULENCE;

EID: 77955709223     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-010-9505-0     Document Type: Article

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