Directional wind-wave coupling in fully coupled atmosphere-wave-ocean models: Results from CBLAST-hurricane

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 70, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 3198-3215

  Chen, Shuyi S ^a   Zhao, Wei ^a   Donelan, Mark A ^a   Tolman, Hendrik L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; COUPLED BOUNDARY LAYER AIR-SEA TRANSFERS; COUPLED MODELING; HURRICANE FRANCES; HURRICANE RESEARCH; INTENSE RAINFALLS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL WAVES; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

COASTAL ZONES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PARAMETERIZATION; SOFTWARE TESTING; STORMS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WAVES; WATER WAVES;

HURRICANES;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; HURRICANE FRANCES 2004; PARAMETERIZATION; WIND WAVE;

EID: 84880714184     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-12-0157.1     Document Type: Article

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