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A Richardson Number criterion for the air-sea interface

โœ Scribed by John Bye

Publisher
Springer
Year
1988
Tongue
English
Weight
199 KB
Volume
44
Category
Article
ISSN
0006-8314

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โœฆ Synopsis

It is shown that the observationally determined roughness relation z,, = au$g in which g is the acceleration of gravity, u* is the friction velocity in air, and a = 0.0185 (Wu, 1982) for the wind profile over the sea surface relative to the surface current, is consistent with the existence of a Richardson Number criterion at the air-sea interface in which the critical Richardson Number, Ri, = 1, such that all the shear energy is converted into potential energy.

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