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Atmospheric boundary layer over steep surface waves |
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| Authors: | Yuliya Troitskaya Daniil A Sergeev Oleg Druzhinin Alexander A Kandaurov Olga S Ermakova Ekaterina V Ezhova Igor Esau Sergej Zilitinkevich |
| Institution: | 1. Institute of Applied Physics, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia 2. Lobachevsky Nizhny Novgorod State University, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia 3. Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Bergen, Norway 4. Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland 5. Division of Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland |
| Abstract: | Turbulent air-sea interactions coupled with the surface wave dynamics remain a challenging problem. The needs to include this kind of interaction into the coupled environmental, weather and climate models motivate the development of a simplified approximation of the complex and strongly nonlinear interaction processes. This study proposes a quasi-linear model of wind-wave coupling. It formulates the approach and derives the model equations. The model is verified through a set of laboratory (direct measurements of an airflow by the particle image velocimetry (PIV) technique) and numerical (a direct numerical simulation (DNS) technique) experiments. The experiments support the central model assumption that the flow velocity field averaged over an ensemble of turbulent fluctuations is smooth and does not demonstrate flow separation from the crests of the waves. The proposed quasi-linear model correctly recovers the measured characteristics of the turbulent boundary layer over the waved water surface. |
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