Sea spray volume flux estimation using joint statistics of wind and waves

Dag Myrhaug; Bernt J. Leira; Gowtham Radhakrishnan; Håvard Holm

Oceanologia (Oct 2022)

Sea spray volume flux estimation using joint statistics of wind and waves

Dag Myrhaug,
Bernt J. Leira,
Gowtham Radhakrishnan,
Håvard Holm

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Dag Myrhaug: Corresponding author at: Department of Marine Technology (NTNU), Otto Nielsens vei 10, NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway.; Department of Marine Technology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway
Bernt J. Leira: Department of Marine Technology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway
Gowtham Radhakrishnan: Department of Marine Technology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway
Håvard Holm: Department of Marine Technology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 64, no. 4
pp. 789 – 793

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This article provides estimates of the sea spray volume flux using joint statistics of wind and waves. This is achieved by combining the sea spray volume flux parameterization proposed by Xu et al. (2021) with the joint statistics of wind and waves provided by Bitner-Gregersen (2015). Both the sea spray volume flux formula and the joint statistics of wind and waves represent conditions for wind waves from the North-West Shelf of Western Australia. The expected value and the variance of the sea spray volume flux for a range of realistic wind and wave conditions are presented, as well as an illustrative example. Comparison is also made with data from Xu et al. (2021) showing a reasonable agreement for the relevant subset of the data.

Published in Oceanologia

ISSN: 0078-3234 (Print)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: Netherlands
LCC subjects: Geography. Anthropology. Recreation: Oceanography
Website: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/oceanologia/

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