Airborne Measurements of Whitecap Kinematics and Dynamics in the High-Wind Regime: Source Functions for Marine Aerosols, Surface Currents and Turbulence.

摘要

The long-term goals of this research are to improve our knowledge and understanding of the role of breaking in air-sea interaction. We are concerned with the role of breaking in the fluxes of momentum, energy (mechanical and heat) and mass (gasses & aerosols) across the air-sea interface. These processes are important for the generation of ocean currents, air-sea heat and gas transfer, surfacewave evolution and dissipation, upper ocean mixing and transport, and hurricane dynamics (Melville, 1996).