Improving the Bulk Formula for Sea-Surface Fluxes

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larry Mahrt
Keyword(s):  
Surface Fluxes ◽  
Sea Surface ◽  
Bulk Formula

Improving the Bulk Formula for Sea-Surface Fluxes

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larry Mahrt
Keyword(s):  
Surface Fluxes ◽  
Sea Surface ◽  
Bulk Formula

Improving the Bulk Formula for Sea-Surface Fluxes

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larry Mahrt
Keyword(s):  
Surface Fluxes ◽  
Sea Surface ◽  
Bulk Formula

Predicting the Turbulent Air-Sea Surface Fluxes, Including Spray Effects, from Weak to Strong Winds

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edgar L. Andreas ◽  
Larry Mahrt
Keyword(s):  
Surface Fluxes ◽  
Sea Surface ◽  
Strong Winds

Seasonal variability of the Yellow Sea/East China Sea surface fluxes and thermohaline structure

2005 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Chu ◽  
Chen Yuchun ◽  
Akira Kuninaka
Keyword(s):  
East China Sea ◽  
Yellow Sea ◽  
Seasonal Variability ◽  
Surface Fluxes ◽  
Sea Surface ◽  
The Yellow Sea ◽  
East China ◽  
Thermohaline Structure ◽  
China Sea

scholarly journals Multi-Physics Ensemble versus Atmosphere–Ocean Coupled Model Simulations for a Tropical-Like Cyclone in the Mediterranean Sea

Atmosphere ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Ricchi ◽  
Mario Marcello Miglietta ◽  
Davide Bonaldo ◽  
Guido Cioni ◽  
Umberto Rizza ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Computational Cost ◽  
Ocean Model ◽  
Surface Fluxes ◽  
Ocean Modeling ◽  
Sea Surface ◽  
Regional Ocean Modeling System ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Physics Ensemble

Between 19 and 22 January 2014, a baroclinic wave moving eastward from the Atlantic Ocean generated a cut-off low over the Strait of Gibraltar and was responsible for the subsequent intensification of an extra-tropical cyclone. This system exhibited tropical-like features in the following stages of its life cycle and remained active for approximately 80 h, moving along the Mediterranean Sea from west to east, eventually reaching the Adriatic Sea. Two different modeling approaches, which are comparable in terms of computational cost, are analyzed here to represent the cyclone evolution. First, a multi-physics ensemble using different microphysics and turbulence parameterization schemes available in the WRF (weather research and forecasting) model is employed. Second, the COAWST (coupled ocean–atmosphere wave sediment transport modeling system) suite, including WRF as an atmospheric model, ROMS (regional ocean modeling system) as an ocean model, and SWAN (simulating waves in nearshore) as a wave model, is used. The advantage of using a coupled modeling system is evaluated taking into account air–sea interaction processes at growing levels of complexity. First, a high-resolution sea surface temperature (SST) field, updated every 6 h, is used to force a WRF model stand-alone atmospheric simulation. Later, a two-way atmosphere–ocean coupled configuration is employed using COAWST, where SST is updated using consistent sea surface fluxes in the atmospheric and ocean models. Results show that a 1D ocean model is able to reproduce the evolution of the cyclone rather well, given a high-resolution initial SST field produced by ROMS after a long spin-up time. Additionally, coupled simulations reproduce more accurate (less intense) sea surface heat fluxes and a cyclone track and intensity, compared with a multi-physics ensemble of standalone atmospheric simulations.

Assessment of the role of sea surface fluxes on eastern Mediterranean explosive cyclogenesis with the aid of the limited-area model COSMO.GR

2018 ◽  
Vol 208 ◽  
pp. 132-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Kouroutzoglou ◽  
Euripides N. Avgoustoglou ◽  
Helena A. Flocas ◽  
Maria Hatzaki ◽  
Panagiotis Skrimizeas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Surface Fluxes ◽  
Sea Surface ◽  
Limited Area ◽  
Limited Area Model ◽  
Area Model

scholarly journals U.S. West Coast Surface Heat Fluxes, Wind Stress, and Wind Stress Curl from a Mesoscale Model

2005 ◽  
Vol 133 (11) ◽  
pp. 3202-3216 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Haack ◽  
S. D. Burk ◽  
R. M. Hodur
Keyword(s):  
Relative Humidity ◽  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Sea Surface Temperature ◽  
Wind Stress ◽  
Mesoscale Model ◽  
Surface Fluxes ◽  
Heat Fluxes ◽  
Sea Surface ◽  
Wind Stress Curl ◽  
Low Level

Abstract Monthly averages of numerical model fields are beneficial for depicting patterns in surface forcing such as sensible and latent heat fluxes, wind stress, and wind stress curl over data-sparse ocean regions. Grid resolutions less than 10 km provide the necessary mesoscale detail to characterize the impact of a complex coastline and coastal topography. In the present study a high-resolution mesoscale model is employed to reveal patterns in low-level winds, temperature, relative humidity, sea surface temperature as well as surface fluxes, over the eastern Pacific and along the U.S. west coast. Hourly output from successive 12-h forecasts are averaged to obtain monthly mean patterns from each season of 1999. The averages yield information on interactions between the ocean and the overlying atmosphere and on the influence of coastal terrain forcing in addition to their month-to-month variability. The spring to summer transition is characterized by a dramatic shift in near-surface winds, temperature, and relative humidity as offshore regions of large upward surface fluxes diminish and an alongshore coastal flux gradient forms. Embedded within this gradient, and the imprint of strong summertime topographic forcing, are small-scale fluctuations that vary in concert with local changes in sea surface temperature. Potential feedbacks between the low-level wind, sea surface temperature, and the wind stress curl are explored in the coastal regime and offshore waters. In all seasons, offshore extensions of colder coastal waters impose a marked influence on low-level conditions by locally enhancing stability and reducing the wind speed, while buoy measurements along the coast indicate that sea surface temperatures and wind speeds tend to be negatively correlated.

scholarly journals Structure of the Mixed Layer and Estimates of Sea Surface Fluxes during TOGA-COARE IOP

1995 ◽  
Vol 73 (2B) ◽  
pp. 585-596 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. H. Ding ◽  
Akimasa Sumi ◽  
X. S. Shen
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Layer ◽  
Surface Fluxes ◽  
Sea Surface ◽  
Toga Coare
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