EVAPORATION AND SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX OVER THE ARCTIC OCEAN.

• Main Authors: Vowinckel,E., Taylor,Bea
• Other Authors: MCGILL UNIV MONTREAL (QUEBEC)
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1964
• Subjects: (*EVAPORATION; ARCTIC OCEAN); (*HEAT TRANSFER; (*ARCTIC OCEAN; METEOROLOGY); MARINE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; TABLES(DATA); Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Barents Sea; East Siberian Sea; Laptev Sea; Beaufort Sea; Kara-Laptev; laptev
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0600015; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0600015

These fluxes were calculated for each month over the Polar Ocean and the Norwegian-Barents Sea. Sverdrup's evaporation formula was used, and it was first examined how the K-coefficient in that formula depends on the wind speed frequency distribution. Seasonal maps were constructed of mean wind...