Impact of Sea-Spray on the Atmospheric Surface Layer

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 140, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 361-381

  Bianco, L ^a,b   Bao, J W ^a   Fairall, C W ^a   Michelson, S A ^a,b  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Air sea interaction; Atmospheric surface layer; Sea spray; Surface boundary layer

Indexed keywords

AIR SEA INTERACTIONS; AMBIENT AIR; ATMOSPHERIC SURFACE LAYER; ATMOSPHERIC SURFACE LAYERS; DROPLET EVAPORATION; DROPLET GENERATION; EQUILIBRIUM CONDITIONS; FEEDBACK EFFECTS; FRICTION VELOCITY; MEAN-WINDS; MOMENTUM FLUX; MONIN-OBUKHOV SIMILARITY THEORY; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PARAMETRIZATIONS; SEA-SPRAY; SENSIBLE HEAT; SIZE SPECTRUM; SURFACE BOUNDARY LAYER; SURFACE FORCING; SURFACE LAYERS; THERMAL FIELD; THERMAL INTERACTION; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TURBULENCE MIXING; TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGY; TURBULENT MIXING; WATER DROPLETS; WAVE HEIGHTS; WIND SPEED;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BUOYANCY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROPS; KINETIC ENERGY; MIXING; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SALINE WATER; SHOCK TUBES; STORMS; THERMAL EVAPORATION; TURBULENT FLOW; WIND EFFECTS;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; BUOYANCY; DROPLET; EVAPORATION; SURFACE LAYER; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER; TURBULENT MIXING; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 80051669969     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-011-9617-1     Document Type: Article

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