The effect of current and wave on whitecap coverage via relative speed: the Atlantic Ocean case

Ting Yu; Zeng’an Deng; Changlong Guan

doi:10.1007/s00343-009-9137-8

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The effect of current and wave on whitecap coverage via relative speed: the Atlantic Ocean case

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- The effect of current and wave on whitecap coverage via relative speed: the Atlantic Ocean case
- Journal of Oceanology and Limnology Vol. 27, Issue 4, Pages: 924-930(2009)
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  1. Physical Oceanography Laboratory Ocean University of China
  2. National Marine Data and Information Service
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- DOI：10.1007/s00343-009-9137-8
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- Online First：04 December 2009，
  
  Published：2009
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Yu, T., Deng, Z. & Guan, C. The effect of current and wave on whitecap coverage via relative speed: the Atlantic Ocean case., Chin. J. Ocean. Limnol. 27, 924–930 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-009-9137-8
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Yu, T., Deng, Z. & Guan, C. The effect of current and wave on whitecap coverage via relative speed: the Atlantic Ocean case., Chin. J. Ocean. Limnol. 27, 924–930 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-009-9137-8 DOI：

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Abstract

Whitecapping plays an important role in many air-sea exchange and upper ocean processes. Traditionally

whitecap coverage is parameterized as a function of wind speed only. At present

the relative speed of ocean current to wind is considered to be important in the air-sea exchange parameterization which is the function of wind speed only. In this paper

the effects of ocean surface velocity (current velocity and wave induced velocity) and the wave parameters on whitecap coverage through relative speeds are investigated

by applying a 2-parameter whitecap coverage model to the Atlantic Ocean. It is found that the impacts of both current and wave on whitecap coverage are considerable in the most part of the Atlantic Ocean. It is interesting that the effect of wave is more significant than that of current.

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