Session 5 Sea Surface Physics, Including Waves, Whitecaps, and Aerosol Generation: 2. Laboratory, Field, and Satellite Observations

Tuesday, 28 September 2010: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Capitol AB (Westin Annapolis)
Host: 17th Conference on Air Sea Interaction
Chair:
G. L. Geernaert, LANL, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Los Alamos, NM

Papers:
10:30 AM
5.1
First extensive whitecap database and its use to study whitecap fraction variability
Magdalena D. Anguelova, NRL, Washington, DC ; and M. H. Bettenhausen, W. Johnston, and P. W. Gaiser

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10:45 AM
5.2
Influence of ocean surface processes on gas transfer during SO-GasEx
Christopher J. Zappa, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY; and W. McGillis, A. Cifuentes-Lorenzen, J. B. Edson, M. DeGrandpre, C. Sabine, L. Bariteau, and C. W. Fairall
Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM
5.3
Measuring rain-induced momentum exchange at the ocean surface under low wind speed conditions
Emily L. Harrison, University of Delaware, Lewes, DE; and F. Veron

11:15 AM
5.4
Dynamics of the airflow above breaking and non-breaking waves
Marc Buckley, University of Delaware, Lewes, DE; and F. Veron

11:30 AM
5.5
Critical Layer Depth and its Implication on the Wave Growth Parameter for the Southern Ocean
Alejandro Cifuentes-Lorenzen, University of Connecticut, Groton, CT; and J. B. Edson and C. J. Zappa
Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM
5.6
Air-sea momentum flux in the presence of frequent wave breaking events: theory and laboratory observations
Tetsu Hara, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI; and B. K. Haus and T. Kukulka
Recorded Presentation

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