Journal article
The impact of spume droplets induced by the bag-breakup mechanism on tropical cyclone modeling
X Xu, J Voermans, T Waseda, IJ Moon, Q Liu, AV Babanin
Frontiers in Marine Science | Frontiers Media SA | Published : 2023
Abstract
Spume, large-radius seawater droplets that are ejected from the ocean into the atmosphere, can exchange moisture and heat fluxes with the surrounding air. Under severe weather conditions, spume can substantially mediate air-sea fluxes through thermal effects and thus needs to be physically parameterized. While the impact made by spume on air-sea interactions has been considered in bulk turbulent air-sea algorithms, various hypotheses in current models have resulted in uncertainties remaining regarding the effect of spume on air-sea coupling. In this study, we extended a classic bulk turbulent air-sea algorithm with a “bag-breakup” physical scheme of spume generation parameterizations to incl..
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Awarded by Korea Institute of Marine Science and Technology promotion
Funding Acknowledgements
XX, JV, and AB acknowledge the support of the Centre of Disaster Management and Public Safety of the University of Melbourne. AB acknowledges support of the US Office of Naval Research Global, Grant Number N62909-20-1-2080. I-JM was supported by Korea Institute of Marine Science & Technology Promotion (KIMST) funded by the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries (20210607, "Establishment of the ocean research station in the jurisdiction zone and convergence research"; 20220566, "Study on Northwestern Pacific Warming and Genesis and Rapid Intensification of Typhoon").