Tuesday, 12 June 2018: 11:00 AM
Meeting Room 19-20 (Renaissance Oklahoma City Convention Center Hotel)
Understanding how momentum and scalars are transferred between the atmosphere and the ocean is important for weather, sea state, and climate predictions. Small-scale turbulent processes near the air-sea interface influence these fluxes.
A novel in situ measurement system was used on RP FLIP during the CASPER-West campaign (Sep-Oct 2017), providing measurements of the fine scale turbulent motions in the airflow, a few millimeters above waves. The general characteristics of the wind and the waves were measured using single point sensors (anemometers, wave gauges). Intense spanwise vorticity structures were observed along the upwind face of the waves (within the first few millimeters from the water surface). We will discuss the influence of waves on the coherent structures in the airflow, and on the partitioning of the wind stress within the wave boundary layer.
A novel in situ measurement system was used on RP FLIP during the CASPER-West campaign (Sep-Oct 2017), providing measurements of the fine scale turbulent motions in the airflow, a few millimeters above waves. The general characteristics of the wind and the waves were measured using single point sensors (anemometers, wave gauges). Intense spanwise vorticity structures were observed along the upwind face of the waves (within the first few millimeters from the water surface). We will discuss the influence of waves on the coherent structures in the airflow, and on the partitioning of the wind stress within the wave boundary layer.
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