Session 13 CASPER Special Session: Coastal Air–Sea Interaction Affecting Electromagnetic Wave Propagation. Part I

Thursday, 16 January 2020: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
158 (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: 18th Symposium on the Coastal Environment
Cochairs:
Qing Wang, NPS, Department of Meteorology, Monterey, CA; Lian Shen, University of Minnesota, Department of Mechnical Engineering - St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, Minneapolis, MN and Art Miller, NOAA, NOS CO-OPS, Silver Spring, MD

The Coupled Air-Sea Processes and Electromagnetic ducting Research (CASPER) is a five-year multiple disciplinary research program aimed at improving the understanding and prediction of environmental conditions resulting in ducting of electromagnetic waves (EM), mostly associated with the atmospheric surface layer or the boundary layer capping inversion. Two intensive field campaigns and multiple efforts of numerical modeling studies utilizing large eddy simulation (LES) and mesoscale models, as well as EM propagation models, have been conducted during the CAPSER period. This session provides the opportunity to present recent advances from the CASPER efforts in understanding air-sea interaction processes, coastal internal boundary layer development, coastal upper ocean processes, and EM ducting in the measured and modeled atmospheric environment. The session presentations will especially address major scientific gaps in accurately capturing and representing the vertical gradients of wind and thermodynamic properties and small-scale turbulence structure in the marine environment.

Papers:
1:45 PM
13.2
An Evaluation of Monin–Obukhov Similarity Theory within the Marine Atmospheric Surface Layer: The Prevalence of the Constant Stress Layer
David G. Ortiz-Suslow, NPS, Monterey, CA; and D. P. Alappattu, J. Kalogiros, R. Yamaguchi, B. Wauer, K. Franklin, and Q. Wang
2:00 PM
13.3
Spatial Variability of Offshore Internal Boundary Layers
H. J. S. Fernando, Univ. of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN; and R. Krishnamurthy, D. Alapattu, R. Yamaguchi, and Q. Wang
2:15 PM
13.4
MABL Vertical Structure and Air–Sea Interaction during CASPER-East and CASPER-West and Implications on Electromagnetic (EM) Wave Propagation
Djamal Khelif, Univ. of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA; and Q. Wang, R. Burkholder, C. Yardim, and Q. Wang

2:30 PM
13.5
2:45 PM
13.6
Understanding Evaporation Ducts on Turbulent Eddy Scales
Kyle Franklin, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA; and Q. Wang, Q. Jiang, and L. Shen
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