Wind-Over-Waves Coupling

TL;DR: In this paper, the role of the surface roughness in the formation of the aerodynamic friction of the water surface at high wind speeds is investigated, based on a wind-over-waves coupling theory.

TL;DR: In this article, a model based on wind-over-waves coupling (WOWC) theory is used to simulate a laboratory experiment and to explain the observed peculiarities of the surface stress distribution above a combined wave field: wind-generated-plus-monochromatic-paddle waves.

TL;DR: In this paper, an adaptation of traditional Lagrangian stochastic models to the atmospheric marine boundary layer (MBL), where the bottom boundary is represented by a realistic wavy surface that moves and deforms.

TL;DR: In this paper, a systematic investigation and comparison of near-surface marine wind speed obtained from in situ and satellite observations, atmospheric reanalyses and regional atmospheric hindcasts with reanalysis driven regional climate models (RCMs) is presented for the eastern North Atlantic and the North Sea.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a model to predict the occurrence and dynamics of breaking, which is a major impediment to the development of better wind-wave and mixed-layer models, and showed that modern acoustic and electromagnetic oceanographic instrumentation should lead to significantly improved measurements of breaking in the near future.

TL;DR: In this article, the aerodynamic roughness of the sea surface, z0, was investigated using data from Lake Ontario, from the North Sea near the Dutch coast, and from an exposed site in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Nova Scotia.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the changes to a fully developed turbulent boundary layer caused by the presence of a two-dimensional moving wave of wavelength L = 2π/k and amplitude a.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the breaking probability for the dominant surface waves observed in three geographically diverse natural bodies of water: Lake Washington, the Black Sea, and the Southern Ocean, and found that the traditional approach of relating breaking probability to the wind speed or wave age provided reasonable correlations within individual datasets, but when the diverse datasets are combined, these correlations are significantly degraded.