Estimates of the 10-m neutral sea surface drag coefficient from aircraft eddy-covariance measurements

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 301-310

  Vickers, Dean ^a   Mahrt, Larry ^b   Andreas, Edgar L ^c  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NorthWest Research Associates (Seattle Division)   (United States)

^c NorthWest Research Associates (Seattle Division)   (United States)

Author keywords

Air sea interaction; Aircraft observations

Indexed keywords

ADDITIONAL DATUM; AIR SEA INTERACTIONS; AIRCRAFT OBSERVATIONS; ANALYSIS METHOD; SEA SURFACES; STRONG WINDS; SURFACE STRESS; WEAK WINDS;

DRAG COEFFICIENT; EXPERIMENTS; RESEARCH AIRCRAFT;

WIND EFFECTS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; AIRCRAFT; DATA SET; DRAG COEFFICIENT; EDDY COVARIANCE; SEA SURFACE; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84875552029     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: 15200485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-12-0101.1     Document Type: Article

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