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BOUNDARY-LAYER METEOROLOGY
Volume 103, Issue 3, Pages 409-438Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1023/A:1014913624535
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air-sea interaction; Charnock parameter; drag coefficient; momentum flux; wave field
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Data from the 1996 ASGAMAGE* experiment, performed in the southern North Sea at research platform Meetpost Noordwijk (MPN), are analysed for the parameters affecting the momentum flux. The stress turns out to be quadratically related to the 10-m wind speed and linearly to the wind speed at a wavelength related level. The Charnock parameter (dimensionless roughness length) shows a pronounced correlation with wave age. This implies, due to a coupling between wave age and the steepness of the waves, a connection between the stress and the steepness. We find that our North Sea results are consistent with open ocean observations. For a given wind speed the mean stress at MPN turns out to be higher because the wave age there is in general lower. We define and give an expression for a drag coefficient at a wavelength related level that can be calculated straightforwardly from the wave age and then reduced to a standard level.
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