Momentum flux budget across the air-sea interface under uniform and tropical cyclone winds

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2221-2242

  Fan, Yalin ^a   Ginis, Isaac ^b   Hara, Tetsu ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Air sea interaction; Momentum; Oceanic; Tropics; Waves; Wind

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE ESTIMATION; AIR SEA INTERACTIONS; AIR-SEA INTERFACE; AIR-SEA MOMENTUM FLUX; FLUX REDUCTION; MOMENTUM FLUX; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE MODELS; OCEANIC; SPACE AND TIME; STORM INTENSITY; SURFACE WAVE FIELDS; TRANSLATION SPEED; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WAVEFIELDS; WIND FIELD;

BUDGET CONTROL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRAG; EXPERIMENTS; HURRICANES; OCEAN CURRENTS; STORMS; SURFACE WAVES; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; TROPICS; WATER WAVES;

MOMENTUM;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; HURRICANE; OCEAN WAVE; STORM; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WAVE FIELD; WIND FORCING;

EID: 77958581831     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JPO4299.1     Document Type: Article

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