Air-Sea Exchange: Physics, Chemistry and Dynamics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Historical Perspective

   • Gerald L. Geernaert

   Pages 1-24

3. Theory of Air-Sea Momentum, Heat and Gas Fluxes

   • Gerald L. Geernaert

   Pages 25-48

4. The Leading Edge of Turbulence Instrumentation

   • Steve Oncley

   Pages 49-71

5. Dynamical Coupling of Surface Waves With the Atmosphere

   • V. K. Makin, V. N. Kudryavtsev

   Pages 73-125

6. Effect of Surface Gravity Waves on Near-Surface Atmospheric Turbulence

   • Tetsu Hara, Jeffrey E. Hare, James B. Edson, James M. Wilczak

   Pages 127-152

7. The Budget of Turbulent Kinetic Energy in the Marine Atmospheric Surface Layer

   • James M. Wilczak, James B. Edson, Jørgen Højstrup, Tetsu Hara

   Pages 153-173

8. The Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer During Swell, According to Recent Studies in the Baltic Sea

   • A. Smedman, U. Högström, H. Bergström, K. K. Kahma

   Pages 175-196

9. Flux Measurements at the Noordwijk Platform

   • W. Oost

   Pages 197-230

10. Exchange Measurements Above the Air-Sea Interface Using an Aircraft

    • Christopher A. Vogel, Timothy L. Crawford

    Pages 231-245

11. The Coastal Zone

    • Larry Mahrt

    Pages 247-267

12. Footprints of Atmospheric Phenomena in Synthetic Aperture Radar Images of the Ocean Surface: A Review

    • P. D. Mourad

    Pages 269-290

13. The Droplets Produced by Individual Bubbles Bursting on a Sea Water Surface

    • Donald E. Spiel

    Pages 291-325

14. Sea Spray Production and Influence on Air-sea Heat And Moisture Fluxes over the Open Ocean

    • Edgar L. Andreas, Janice Decosmo

    Pages 327-362

15. Modelling the Interaction Between the Atmospheric Boundary Layer and Evaporating Sea Spray Droplets

    • Jeff Kepert, Chris Fairall, Jian-Wen Bao

    Pages 363-409

16. Physical and Chemical Processes Governing Fluxes and Flux Divergence of Gaseous Ammonia and Nitric Acid in the Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer

    • Lise Lotte Sørensen

    Pages 411-436

17. Engineering Spectra Over Water

    • Jakob Mann

    Pages 437-461

18. Identifying Coherent Structures in the Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer

    • Hampton Shirer, George Young, Robert Wells, Aric Rogers, Jeremy Rishel, Richard Mason et al.

    Pages 463-505

19. Turbulent Fluxes and Coherent Structures in Marine Boundary Layers: Investigations by Large-Eddy Simulation

    • James C. McWilliams, Chin-Hoh Moeng, Peter P. Sullivan

    Pages 507-538

20. Doppler Sonar Observations of Langmuir Circulation

    • Jerome A. Smith

    Pages 539-555

During the 1980's a wealth of information was reported from field and laboratory experiments in order to validate andlor modify various aspects of the surface layer Monin-Obukhov (M-O) similarity theory for use over the sea, and to introduce and test new concepts related to high resolution flux magnitudes and variabilities. For example, data from various field experiments conducted on the North Sea, Lake Ontario, and the Atlantic experiments, among others, yielded information on the dependence of the flux coefficients on wave state. In all field projects, the usual criteria for satisfying M-O similarity were applied. The assumptions of stationarity and homogeneity was assumed to be relevant over both small and large scales. In addition, the properties of the outer layer were assumed to be "correlated" with properties of the surface layer. These assumptions generally required that data were averaged for spatial footprints representing scales greater than 25 km (or typically 30 minutes or longer for typical windspeeds). While more and more data became available over the years, and the technology applied was more reliable, robust, and durable, the flux coefficients and other turbulent parameters still exhibited significant unexplained scatter. Since the scatter did not show sufficient reduction over the years to meet customer needs, in spite of improved technology and heavy financial investments, one could only conclude that perhaps the use of similarity theory contained too many simplifications when applied to environments which were more complicated than previously thought.

• Coast
• Ocean
• atmosphere
• climate
• marine
• modelling
• moisture
• water

`I wholeheartedly recommend this book to all students and researchers of air-sea interaction. It is an up-to-date, honest evaluation of the status of the field at the end of the 1990s. ...it was a joy for me to read because of the many intelligent discussions and innovative explanations of complex phenomena. It is also a great foundation for new work... It should also be helpful for researchers evaluating remote sensing techniques to infer physical and dynamical phenomena.'
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 82:5 (2001)

• National Environmental Research Institute, Roskilde, Denmark

  G. L. Geernaert

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