The effects of small-scale turbulence on air-sea heat flux

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 205-220

  Veron, Fabrice ^a   Melville, W Kendall ^b   Lenain, Luc ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Air sea interaction; Fluxes; Forcing; Surface fluxes; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

AIR SEA FLUX; AIR SEA INTERACTIONS; AIR-SEA EXCHANGE; AIR-SEA HEAT FLUX; DIRECT MEASUREMENT; EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; FIELD EXPERIMENT; FLUX TECHNIQUE; FORCING; HEAT EXCHANGE; KINEMATIC VISCOSITY; KINEMATICS AND DYNAMICS; NEAR-SURFACE; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION (PDF); RENEWAL TIME; SCALAR FLUXES; SMALL SCALE TURBULENCE; SMALL-SCALE PHENOMENA; SUB-LAYERS; SURFACE FLUX; SURFACE FLUXES; SURFACE RENEWAL THEORY; SURFACE TURBULENCE; TURBULENCE GENERATION; TURBULENT EDDY; TURBULENT TRANSFER; VISCOUS SUBLAYER;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; EXPONENTIAL FUNCTIONS; HEAT FLUX; KINEMATICS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; DIFFUSIVITY; EDDY; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; SURFACE FLUX; TURBULENCE; VISCOSITY;

EID: 79951608077     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JPO4491.1     Document Type: Article

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