A global perspective on Langmuir turbulence in the ocean surface boundary layer

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 17, 2012, Pages

  Belcher, Stephen E ^a,b   Grant, Alan L M ^a   Hanley, Kirsty E ^a   Fox Kemper, Baylor ^c   Van Roeke, Luke ^c,d   Sullivan, Peter P ^e   Large, William G ^e   Brown, Andy ^b   Hines, Adrian ^b   Calvert, Daley ^b   Rutgersson, Anna ^f   Pettersson, Heidi ^g   Bidlot, Jean Raymond ^h   Janssen, Peter A E M ^h   Polton, Jeff A ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d NORTHLAND COLLEGE   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^f UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^g FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^h EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIXING; OCEANOGRAPHY; SHOCK TUBES; SURFACE WAVES; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS; TURBULENT FLOW; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

BUOYANCY FORCING; DIMENSIONLESS PARAMETERS; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; LANGMUIR TURBULENCE; OCEAN SURFACES; PARAMETERIZATIONS; REANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SOUTHERN OCEAN; SUBSTANTIAL ERRORS; TRACE-GASES; TURBULENT ENERGIES; TURBULENT MIXING; WAVE FORCING; WIDE AREA; WIND FORCING;

PARAMETERIZATION;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; BUOYANCY; CLIMATE MODELING; ERROR ANALYSIS; GAS EXCHANGE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HEAT FLUX; LANGMUIR CIRCULATION; OCEAN WAVE; PARAMETERIZATION; SEA SURFACE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TRACE GAS; TURBULENT MIXING; WIND FORCING;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84867029827     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL052932     Document Type: Article

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