An overview of sea state conditions and air-sea fluxes during RaDyO

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 117, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Zappa, Christopher J ^a   Banner, Michael L ^b   Schultz, Howard ^c   Gemmrich, Johannes R ^d   Morison, Russel P ^b   Lebel, Deborah A ^a   Dickey, Tommy ^e  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c Biologically Inspired Neural and Dynamical Systems Laboratory   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEAN CURRENTS; SPECTRAL DENSITY;

AIR SEA FLUX; AIR-SEA INTERFACE; CREST LENGTH; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FIELD EXPERIMENT; INFRARED IMAGERY; INSTRUMENT PLATFORMS; MEASUREMENT METHODOLOGY; MICRO-SCALES; MODELING CAPABILITIES; OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCHES; OPTICAL DISTORTION; OPTIMAL COVERAGE; PACIFIC OCEAN; POLARIMETRIC IMAGING; SANTA BARBARA CHANNELS; SCIENTIFIC ADVANCES; SEA STATE; SEA SURFACE SLOPE; SEA SURFACES; SURFACE CURRENT; WAVE AGE; WAVEBREAKING; WAVEFIELDS;

SURFACE WATERS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RESEARCH PROGRAM; SEA STATE; SEA SURFACE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WAVE BREAKING; WIND PROFILE;

CALIFORNIA; HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (CENTRAL); SANTA BARBARA CHANNEL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84861303379     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JC007336     Document Type: Review

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