AIR-SEA EXCHANGE IN HURRICANES: Synthesis of Observations from the Coupled Boundary Layer Air-Sea Transfer Experiment

摘要

The CBLAST (see Table 1 for a list of the acronyms and their expansions used herein) experiment was conducted during 2000-05 to improve our fundamental understanding of physical processes at the air-sea interface. We focus here on the CBLAST-Hurricanecomponent, which included experimental observations of the air-sea exchange process in high winds suitable for improving hurricane-track and intensity model physics. Other CBLAST activities focused on low-wind dynamics (Edson et al. 2007) and coupled modeling of hurricanes (Chen et al. 2007).