Parameterizations of sea-spray impact on the air-sea momentum and heat fluxes

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 139, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3781-3797

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

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coupled models; Parameterization; Subgrid scale processes

Indexed keywords

AIR SEA FLUX; COUPLED MODELS; DYNAMICAL INTERPRETATION; HIGH WINDS; HURRICANE BOUNDARY LAYERS; HURRICANE INTENSIFICATION; MARINE SURFACES; MEAN DROPLET SIZE; MONIN-OBUKHOV SIMILARITY THEORY; NEAR-SURFACE; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; PARAMETERIZATIONS; PARAMETERIZED; PARAMETERIZING; SEA SPRAY; SENSIBLE AND LATENT HEAT FLUXES; SUBGRID SCALE; WEATHER PREDICTION MODEL; WIND SPEED;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; DROPS; HEAT FLUX; HURRICANES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND EFFECTS;

PARAMETERIZATION;

BOUNDARY LAYER; HURRICANE; MOISTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; TEMPERATURE; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84855787603     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-11-00007.1     Document Type: Article

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