Office of Naval Research (ONR), Arctic and Global Prediction Program Department Research Initiative (DRI), Sea State and Boundary Layer Physics of the Emerging Arctic Ocean Quantifying the Role of Atmospheric Forcing in Ice Edge Retreat and Advance Including Wind-Wave Coupling

We plan an integrated approach, in collaboration with other groups, to address the issue of representing surface fluxes and ocean waves in coupled models in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas. The effort principally addresses the physics of heat and mass transfer from the ocean to the atmosphere, but our...

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Main Authors: Guest, Peter S, Fairall, Christopher W, Persson, P O
Other Authors: NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2014
Subjects:
Physical and Dynamic Oceanography
*OCEAN WAVES
ARCTIC OCEAN
BOUNDARY LAYER
COUPLING(INTERACTION)
ICE
OPEN WATER
SEA STATES
WIND
Arctic
Arctic Ocean
Chukchi
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA616467
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA616467
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Summary:We plan an integrated approach, in collaboration with other groups, to address the issue of representing surface fluxes and ocean waves in coupled models in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas. The effort principally addresses the physics of heat and mass transfer from the ocean to the atmosphere, but our observations of turbulent stress, wave properties, and components of the momentum and energy flux budgets will contribute to improvements in forecasting of waves on the open ocean and in the marginal ice zone.

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