Research Summaries

Back Improving Surface Flux Parameterization

Fiscal Year 2008
Division Graduate School of Engineering & Applied Science
Department Meteorology
Investigator(s) Wang, Qing
Sponsor Office of Naval Research (Navy)
Summary Funds are provided to continue the on-going joint NRL-NPS CBLAST project that aims at improving surface layer parameterization in COAMPS and understanding air-sea interaction with an emphasis at low wind conditions; it includes two related efforts. One is to use a combination of COAMPS fields and observations to provide physical insight into and development of new parameterizations for the relevant processes; the other is to test and evaluate the new parameterizations and eventually transition the new results into the COAMPS operational/research system. This project is part of the Coupled Boundary Layer Air Sea Transfer (CBLAST) program, whose goal is quantify the fluxes of momentum, heat, and moisture and develop parameterizations which are usable in larger scale numerical models. The experiment utilized a tower deployed South of Martha's Vineyard in 19 m of water. This tower contained a complete suite of meteorological (in air) and oceanographic (in water) instrumentation aimed at closing the budgets of mass, momentum, and heat.
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