Indirect air-sea interactions simulated with a coupled turbulence-resolving model

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 689-705

  Esau, Igor ^a  

^a NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER   (Norway)

Author keywords

Air sea interaction; Large eddy simulations; Planetary boundary layer

Indexed keywords

AIR; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; NATURAL CONVECTION; OCEANOGRAPHY; PHASE INTERFACES; TURBULENCE;

AIR SEA INTERACTIONS; LARGE-EDDY SIMULATION MODELS; LOWER BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYERS; RAYLEIGH-BENARD CONVECTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCES;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84904631368     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: 16167228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-014-0712-y     Document Type: Article

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