First direct measurements of enthalpy flux in the hurricane boundary layer: The CBLAST results

Details First direct measurements of enthalpy flux in the hurricane boundary layer: The CBLAST results First direct measurements of enthalpy flux in the hurricane boundary layer: The CBLAST results

Jul 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008georl..3514813z&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 35, Issue 14, CiteID L14813

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Atmospheric Processes: Boundary Layer Processes, Oceanography: Physical: Air/Sea Interactions (0312, 3339), Atmospheric Processes: Ocean/Atmosphere Interactions (0312, 4504)

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Hurricanes extract energy from the warm ocean through enthalpy fluxes. As part of the Coupled Boundary Layer Air-Sea Transfer (CBLAST) experiment, flights were conducted to measure turbulent fluxes in the high-wind boundary layer of hurricanes. Here we present the first field observations of sensible heat and enthalpy flux for 10m wind speeds to 30 ms-1. The analyses indicate no statistically significant dependence of these bulk exchange coefficients on wind speed. As a measure of hurricane development potential, we compute the mean ratio of the exchange coefficient for enthalpy to that for momentum and find it to be significantly below the lowest threshold estimated by previous investigators. This suggests that the enthalpy flux required for hurricane development may come from sources other than turbulent fluxes, such as lateral fluxes from the vortex warm core, or sea spray. Alternatively, it demands a re-evaluation of the theoretical models used to derive the threshold.

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