Effects of air-sea drag coefficient on estimating wind stress using wind statistics

This article addresses the effects of the air-sea drag coefficient on estimation of wind stress based on wind statistics. This is achieved by applying the same wind stress parameterizations chosen by Wrobel-Niedzwiecka et al. (2019) together with mean wind speed statistics from three locations in th...

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Published in:Oceanologia
Main Authors: Dag Myrhaug, Hong Wang, Lars Erik Holmedal, Bernt J. Leira
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2022
Subjects:
Wind stress
Drag coefficient
North Atlantic
Northern North Sea
Wind statistics
Stochastic method
Oceanography
GC1-1581
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceano.2022.03.004
https://doaj.org/article/ea03fe933ac6479b9b3716dfc5dc366f
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Summary:This article addresses the effects of the air-sea drag coefficient on estimation of wind stress based on wind statistics. This is achieved by applying the same wind stress parameterizations chosen by Wrobel-Niedzwiecka et al. (2019) together with mean wind speed statistics from three locations in the North Atlantic and one location in the Northern North Sea. The expected values and the variances of the wind stress are provided. This study is complementary to that of Wrobel-Niedzwiecka et al. (2019), also demonstrating different results depending on the drag coefficient formula used.

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