Statistical parameters of the air turbulent boundary layer over steep water waves measured by the PIV technique

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1421-1454

  Troitskaya, Yuliya ^a   Sergeev, D ^a   Ermakova, O ^a   Balandina, G ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Boundary layer; Oceanic; Statistics; Waves; Wind

Indexed keywords

CENTERLINE VELOCITY; CURVILINEAR INTERFACE; DIRECT MEASUREMENT; ENERGY FLUXES; FLOW AVERAGING; INSTANTANEOUS FLOW; NONSTATIONARY; OCEANIC; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY TECHNIQUE; PIV TECHNIQUES; PRESSURE DISTURBANCE; QUASI-LINEAR; QUASI-LINEAR MODEL; STATISTICAL ENSEMBLES; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; STRONGLY NONLINEAR; THEORETICAL RESULT; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYERS; VECTOR FIELDS; WATER ELEVATION; WATER SURFACE; WIND-WAVE INTERACTION;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; FLOW VELOCITY; HYDRODYNAMICS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SURFACE WATERS; TURBULENCE; VELOCITY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WAVES;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

AIRFLOW; ENERGY FLUX; FLOW PATTERN; FLOW VELOCITY; GRAVITY WAVE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEAN WAVE; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER; TURBULENT FLOW; WATER WAVE; WIND-WAVE INTERACTION;

EID: 80052357775     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JPO4392.1     Document Type: Article

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