Oceanic whitecap coverage measured during UK-SOLAS cruises
Oceanic whitecap coverage measured during UK-SOLAS cruises
The breaking of wind-generated waves plays asignificant role in the exchanges of momentum, heat,water vapour, and gas between the atmosphere and theocean. Breaking waves entrain air into the surface waterforming bubbles, which manifests itself as a whitecap onthe ocean surface. Whitecap measurements in the openocean are sparse and are limited to Monahan andMuircheartaigh, (1980), the warm and moderate seasdata sets of Bortovskii, (1987), Stramska and Petelski,(2003), and Callaghan et al. (2008a). During the UKfunded SOLAS cruises extensive measurements of thewhitecap coverage in the North Atlantic and NorwegianSea were made. Initial whitecap measurements fromthese cruises will be presented.
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Moat, Ben I.
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Yelland, Margaret J.
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Pascal, Robin W.
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14 January 2009
Moat, Ben I.
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Yelland, Margaret J.
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Pascal, Robin W.
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Moat, Ben I., Yelland, Margaret J. and Pascal, Robin W.
(2009)
Oceanic whitecap coverage measured during UK-SOLAS cruises.
16th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction, Phoenix, USA.
11 - 15 Jan 2009.
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The breaking of wind-generated waves plays asignificant role in the exchanges of momentum, heat,water vapour, and gas between the atmosphere and theocean. Breaking waves entrain air into the surface waterforming bubbles, which manifests itself as a whitecap onthe ocean surface. Whitecap measurements in the openocean are sparse and are limited to Monahan andMuircheartaigh, (1980), the warm and moderate seasdata sets of Bortovskii, (1987), Stramska and Petelski,(2003), and Callaghan et al. (2008a). During the UKfunded SOLAS cruises extensive measurements of thewhitecap coverage in the North Atlantic and NorwegianSea were made. Initial whitecap measurements fromthese cruises will be presented.
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Published date: 14 January 2009
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16th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction, Phoenix, USA, 2009-01-11 - 2009-01-15
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/64705
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Ben I. Moat
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Margaret J. Yelland
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Robin W. Pascal
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