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The wave drag of wind over water

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

R. W. Stewart
R. W. Stewart
Affiliation:
University of British Columbia,
Now Visiting Professor, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Vancouver, British Columbia
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Abstract

It is shown to be probable that a large proportion of the drag exerted by a water surface on the wind is in the form of wave drag. As a result the usual relation between the wind profile and the surface stress and roughness length are modified. In particular, close to the surface the relation between the transport of momentum and that of heat and water vapour are different from that obtaining over a rough solid surface.

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Research Article
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , March 1961 , pp. 189 - 194
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© 1961 Cambridge University Press

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