The sea surface temperature deviation at very low wind speeds; is there a limit?

Kristina B. Katsaros

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v29i3.11351

The sea surface temperature deviation at very low wind speeds; is there a limit?

Tellus

Volume 29 (1977): Issue 3

By: Kristina B. Katsaros

Open Access

|Jan 1977

Abstract

Laboratory and field measurements of the temperature drop across the boundary layer at the upper surface of evaporating and cooling water in turbulent free convection show that greater values are possible than previously indicated. An upper limit on the surface temperature deviation is imposed only by the maximum heat loss occurring in the earth's most extreme climates.

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