Nonlinear interaction between rain- and wind-induced air-water gas exchange

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Harrison, E L ^a   Veron, F ^a   Ho, D T ^b   Reid, M C ^c   Orton, P ^d   McGillis, W R ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c Princeton University   (United States)

^d STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science   (United States)

^f Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR; EXPERIMENTS; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE; WIND EFFECTS;

AIR SEA INTERACTIONS; AIR-WATER; COMBINED EFFECT; FIELD CONDITIONS; GAS EXCHANGE; GAS FLUX; GAS TRANSFER; LOW WIND SPEED; MASS BALANCE; NONLINEAR INTERACTIONS; RAIN EFFECTS; RAIN KINETIC ENERGY; RAIN RATES; UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE; WAVE PROPERTIES; WIND SPEED;

RAIN;

AIR-WATER INTERACTION; ENERGY FLUX; GAS EXCHANGE; KINETIC ENERGY; MASS BALANCE; NONLINEARITY; PARAMETERIZATION; RAINFALL; TURBULENCE; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84859119687     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JC007693     Document Type: Article

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