Tower-based observation of air-sea momentum flux: comparisons between onshore and offshore winds

Maosheng Ye; Shuang Li; Zhongshui Zou; Jinbao Song; Hailun He; Jian Huang; Hongwei Yang

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Maosheng Ye, Shuang Li, Zhongshui Zou, Jinbao Song, Hailun He, Jian Huang, Hongwei Yang. Tower-based observation of air-sea momentum flux: comparisons between onshore and offshore winds[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2020, 39(7): 61-68. doi: 10.1007/s13131-020-1626-9

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Maosheng Ye, Shuang Li, Zhongshui Zou, Jinbao Song, Hailun He, Jian Huang, Hongwei Yang. Tower-based observation of air-sea momentum flux: comparisons between onshore and offshore winds[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2020, 39(7): 61-68. doi: 10.1007/s13131-020-1626-9

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Maosheng Ye, Shuang Li, Zhongshui Zou, Jinbao Song, Hailun He, Jian Huang, Hongwei Yang. Tower-based observation of air-sea momentum flux: comparisons between onshore and offshore winds[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2020, 39(7): 61-68. doi: 10.1007/s13131-020-1626-9

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Tower-based observation of air-sea momentum flux: comparisons between onshore and offshore winds

doi: 10.1007/s13131-020-1626-9

Maosheng Ye^{1, 2},
Shuang Li^{1
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Zhongshui Zou^{1
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Jinbao Song¹,
Hailun He²,
Jian Huang³,
Hongwei Yang⁴

1.
Ocean College, Zhejiang University, Zhoushan 316021, China
2.
State Key Laboratory of Satellite Ocean Environment Dynamics, Second Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Hangzhou 310012, China
3.
Guangzhou Institute of Tropical and Marine Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration, Guangzhou 510640, China
4.
College of Mathematics and System Science, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266590, China

Funds: The National Natural Science Foundation of China under contract Nos 41830533, 41806028 and 41876003; the National Key Research and Development Program of China under contract Nos 2017YFA0604102 and 2016YFC1401404.

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Corresponding author: E-mail: lshuang@zju.edu.cn; zouzhongshui@zju.edu.cn
Received Date: 2019-07-04
Accepted Date: 2019-07-26

Available Online: 2020-12-28

Publish Date: 2020-07-25

Abstract

Abstract

We investigate the air-sea momentum flux in the marine atmospheric boundary layer using a tower-based direct measurement method. First, we compare the collected data with previous observations, and the results are roughly consistent. Next, in the low-to-moderate winds, the exchange coefficients (or drag coefficients) deviate between onshore and offshore winds, which exhibits the influence of surface wave on the momentum flux. Furthermore, we use a surface-wave-involved parameterization scheme to explain the dependence of momentum flux on surface wave. The results consolidate the influence of surface wave on momentum flux on the one hand, and validate the surface-wave-involved parameterization scheme on the other hand.
- air-sea momentum flux,
- direct measurement method,
- marine atmospheric boundary layer

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