Upward Momentum Transfer in the Marine Boundary Layer

By A. Grachev, Christopher W. Fairall. 2001

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Oceanography

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Monitoring and analysis of ocean swell fields from space: New methods for routine observations (2009, background): “Yet this question if of high practical importance, either for wave forecasting [e.g., Rascle et al., 2008] or other geophysical investigations regarding air-sea fluxes or microseismic noise [e.g., Grachev and Fairall, 2001; Kedar et al., 2008].”
Numerical modeling of ocean swell contributions to the global wind-wave climate (2006, background): “Recent studies indicate that swell decay rates may be affected by a reverse momentum flux mechanism triggered whenever swells travel faster than surface winds (Donelan et al., 1997; Drennan et al., 1999; Grachev and Fairall, 2001; Smedman et al., 2003).”
Bulk Parameterization of Air–Sea Fluxes: Updates and Verification for the COARE Algorithm (2003, background): “At very low winds there is a tendency for the streamwise component to average to a negative value that is interpreted as the return of momentum to the atmospheric by waves (Grachev and Fairall 2001).”
Wind Stress Vector over Ocean Waves (2003, methodology): “With increasing wave age, the wave-induced stress reaches zero, and it reverses sign in the case of old seas (e.g., Grachev and Fairall 2001).”
Wave-Follower Field Measurements of the Wind-Input Spectral Function. Part II: Parameterization of the Wind Input (2006, background): “Smedman et al. (1999), Drennan et al. (1999), Grachev and Fairall (2001), and Grachev et al. (2003) observed negative stress, which is ascribed to the momentum flux from the waves to the wind or swell outrunning the wind.”
Observation of swell dissipation across oceans (2008, background): “well energy [WISE Group, 2007]. Interaction with oceanic turbulence is expected to be relatively small [Ardhuin and Jenkins, 2006]. Observed modiﬁcations and reversals of the wind stress over swells [Grachev and Fairall, 2001] suggest that some swell momentum is lost to the atmosphere. The wave-indu”
Dynamics of Winds and Currents Coupled to Surface Waves (2010, background): “Also, in certain circumstances, wind following fast-moving swell induces momentum transport from the ocean to the atmosphere (Grachev & Fairall 2001, Smedman et al. 1999, Sullivan et al. 2008), i.e., in the opposite direction to the wind-driven wave regime (Section 2.1).”
Sonic Anemometer Tilt Correction Algorithms (2001, background): “Measurements of cross-stream stresses over the sea have been reported (Geernaert, 1988), including measurements of momentum transport from the wave field to the atmosphere when the mean wind field is near calm (Grachev and Fairall, 2001).”
On the exchange of momentum over the open ocean (2013, unknown): “The impact of the upward momentum ﬂux has been investigated in a number of studies including those by Drennan et al. (1999), Smedman et al. (1994, 1999, 2003), Grachev and Fairall (2001), Grachev et al. (2003), and Hanley and Belcher (2008).”
A Global Climatology of Wind–Wave Interaction (2010, background): “Recent observations during conditions when waves propagate faster than the wind have reported upward momentum ﬂux from the waves to the atmosphere (e.g., Drennan et al. 1999; Grachev and Fairall 2001) and the occurrence of low-level wave-driven jets (e.g., Smedman et al. 1999).”