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PT J
TI Impact of wind waves on the air-sea fluxes: A coupled model
BT 
AF KUDRYAVTSEV, V.
   CHAPRON, Bertrand
   MAKIN, V.
AS 1:1;2:1,2;3:3;
FF 1:;2:PDG-ODE-LOS;3:;
C1 RSHU, Satellite Oceanog Lab, St Petersburg, Russia.
   IFREMER, Lab Oceanog Spatiale, Plouzane, France.
   Royal Netherlands Meteorol Inst, NL-3730 AE De Bilt, Netherlands.
C2 UNIV RUSSIAN STATE HYDROMETEOROL, RUSSIA
   IFREMER, FRANCE
   ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROL INST, NETHERLANDS
SI BREST
SE PDG-ODE-LOS
IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018
   copubli-europe
   copubli-int-hors-europe
TC 27
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00177/28778/27253.pdf
LA English
DT Article
AB A revised wind-over-wave-coupling model is developed to provide a consistent description of the sea surface drag and heat/moister transfer coefficients, and associated wind velocity and temperature profiles. The spectral distribution of short wind waves in the decimeter to a few millimeters range of wavelengths is introduced based on the wave action balance equation constrained using the Yurovskaya et al. (2013) optical field wave measurements. The model is capable to reproduce fundamental statistical properties of the sea surface, such as the mean square slope and the spectral distribution of breaking crests length. The surface stress accounts for the effect of airflow separation due to wave breaking, which enables a better fit of simulated form drag to observations. The wave breaking controls the overall energy losses for the gravity waves, but also the generation of shorter waves including the parasitic capillaries, thus enhancing the form drag. Breaking wave contribution to the form drag increases rapidly at winds above 15 m/s where it exceeds the nonbreaking wave contribution. The overall impact of wind waves (breaking and nonbreaking) leads to a sheltering of the near-surface layer where the turbulent mixing is suppressed. Accordingly, the air temperature gradient in this sheltered layer increases to maintain the heat flux constant. The resulting deformation of the air temperature profile tends to lower the roughness scale for temperature compared to its value over the smooth surface.
PY 2014
PD FEB
SO Journal Of Geophysical Research-oceans
SN 0148-0027
PU Amer Geophysical Union
VL 119
IS 2
UT 000336261200035
BP 1217
EP 1236
DI 10.1002/2013JC009412
ID 28778
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