UK Surface Ocean - Lower Atmosphere Study (UK SOLAS)
Project 14
High wind air-sea exchanges (HiWASE)
Principal Investigator — Margaret Yelland, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS).
Objectives
- To make direct measurement of the turbulent air-sea fluxes of sensible and latent heat, momentum and carbon dioxide
- To improve parameterisation of these fluxes in terms of mean meteorological and sea state variables
Activities
Fieldwork has been taking place on the Norwegian weather ship Polarfront between since 2006. Air-sea fluxes of sensible and latent heat, momentum and carbon dioxide will be inferred from measurements of
- Air temperature and 3D winds
- Atmospheric humidity and carbon dioxide concentration
To find out more about Margaret Yelland or HiWASE follow the links below.
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Related UK SOLAS pages at BODC
| Project overview | Cruise programme | |
| Data centre's role | Data inventories | |
| Data policy | Data delivery | |
| Data submission | Other links | |
| Data centre processing | Knowledge transfer | |
| Final report |
Related external links
| International SOLAS | Quantifying and Understanding the Earth System (QUEST) | |
| NERC SOLAS | Margaret Yelland, NOCS | |
| HiWASE |
