THE COUPLED BOUNDARY LAYERS AND AIR-SEA TRANSFER EXPERIMENT IN LOW WINDS

摘要

The need to better understand and model the interdependence of the ocean and atmosphere has long been recognized in the climate and weather communities. Work has been carried out to investigate how the upper ocean responds to the atmosphere, leading to ID models of the upper-ocean response to the atmosphere (e.g., Kraus and Turner 1967; Price et al. 1986), and more recently to fully three-dimensional (3D) ocean boundary layer (OBL) models employing closure schemes similar to those used in the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL; e.g., Mellor and Yamada 1982; Large et al. 1994). However, progress on fully two-way coupled models has been slower, particularly on shorter, weather-related time scales.