Effect of two-way air-sea coupling in high and low wind speed regimes

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 3579-3602

  Chen, Sue ^a   Campbell, Tim J ^a   Jin, Hao ^a   Gaberšek, Saša ^b   Hodur, Richard M ^c   Martin, Paul ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PROPAGATION; AIR SEA INTERACTIONS; AIR-SEA COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC WINDS; COUPLED OCEAN ATMOSPHERE MESOSCALE PREDICTION SYSTEM; DIFFERENT WEATHERS; DRY SLOT; FORCING TERMS; HORIZONTAL ADVECTION; HURRICANE KATRINA; ISLAND WAKES; KATRINA; LOW WIND SPEED; MODEL RESULTS; OCEAN MIXED LAYERS; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BIGHT; SPATIAL SEPARATION; STATIC STABILITY; STRUCTURE CHANGE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; THERMAL STRUCTURE; TIGHTLY-COUPLED; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TURBULENT MIXING; TWO-WAY INTERACTION; VERTICAL ADVECTION;

ADVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; HURRICANES; OCEANOGRAPHY; WAKES;

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE;

ADVECTION; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; HURRICANE; HURRICANE KATRINA 2005; LEE WAVE; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; MIXED LAYER; NUMERICAL MODEL; TURBULENT MIXING; VERTICAL MOVEMENT; VORTICITY; WAKE; WIND DIRECTION; WIND VELOCITY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BIGHT;

EID: 77956386674     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR3119.1     Document Type: Article

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