Kettle, Anthony James
(2015)
A diagram of wind speed versus air-sea temperature difference to understand the marine atmospheric boundary layer.
Energy Procedia, 76.
pp. 138-147.
ISSN 1876-6102
Abstract
This contribution reviews the dynamics in the marine atmospheric boundary layer (MABL) with a diagnostic diagram: wind speed versus air-sea temperature difference or U-ΔT. The diagram was first used by Alfred Woodcock in a series of observational studies from the early 1940s of gull flight patterns, and it was revisited in later decades to illustrate the dynamic and thermodynamic controls of fog formation, mesoscale convective clouds, surface fluxes of heat and momentum, whitecap formation, and vessel icing. The present report uses the figure to compare recent met-ocean conditions for a series of Norwegian offshore production platforms in northern Europe.
| Item Type: |
Article
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| Keywords: |
atmospheric stability;
Monin-Obukhov length;
whitecap;
superstructure icing;
boundary layer;
Woodcock diagram;
herring gull; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Social Sciences > Geography |
| Item ID: |
12292 |
| Identification Number: |
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2015.07.879 |
| Depositing User: |
Anthony Kettle
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| Date Deposited: |
30 Jan 2020 12:40 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
Energy Procedia |
| Publisher: |
Elsevier |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
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| Use Licence: |
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