Momentum and energy transfers across the airseainterface under realistic ocean conditions areimportant not only in theoretical studies, but alsoin many applications including marineatmospheric and oceanic forecasts and climatemodeling on all scales. Surface breaking wavesare believed to be an important supplier ofturbulent energy besides shear production of theclassical turbulence theory. Waves contain aconsiderable amount of momentum and energy,and they redistribute these quantities over greatdistances. Wind waves supply energy forturbulence due to breaking. Ocean waves stronglyeffect the air-sea system on all scale. A part of theenergy and momentum is transferred directlyfrom the atmosphere to ocean currents whileanother part is transferred to surface waves. Theinfluence of surface waves on the air-sea systemhas been studied experimentally and numericallyby many investigators.
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