Recent work by S. Lentz et al. documents offshore transport in the inner shelf due to a wave-driven return flow associated with the Hasselmann wave stress (the Stokes–Coriolis force). This analysis is extended using observations from the central Oregon coast to identify the wave-driven return flow present and quantify the potential bias of wind-driven across-shelf exchange by unresolved wave-dr...

Effects of new drag coefficient (Cd) parameterizations on WAVEWATCH III (WW3) model surface wave simulations are investigated. The new parameterizations are based on a coupled wind–wave model (CWW) and a wave tank experiment, and yields reduced Cd at high wind speeds. Numerical experiments for uniform winds and Hurricane Katrina (2005) indicate that the original Cd parameterization used in WW3 ...

Parameterization schemes for the drag due to atmospheric gravity waves are discussed and compared in the context of a simple one-dimensional model of the quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO). A number of fundamental issues are examined in detail, with the goal of providing a better understanding of the mechanism by which gravity wave drag can produce an equatorial zonal wind oscillation. The gravit...

One of the most dynamical interplanetary phenomena of solar terrestrial physics is definitely the passage of solar wind streams near the Earth environment. In this work, we have identified the two types of high-speed solar wind streams using the spacecraft data during high amplitude days. The behaviour of high-speed solar wind streams during high amplitude anisotropic wave trains is investigate...

Ship-based measurements of sea surface wind speed display a spurious upward trend due to increases in anemometer height. To correct this bias, the authors constructed a new sea surface wind dataset from ship observations of wind speed and wind wave height archived in the International Comprehensive Ocean– Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS). The Waveand Anemometer-based Sea surface Wind (WASWind) data...

We study the low-energy collective excitations and dynamical response functions of weakly coupled random antiferromagnetic spin-1 /2 chains. The interchain coupling leads to Néel order at low temperatures. We use the real-space renormalization-group technique to tackle the intrachain couplings and treat the interchain couplings within the random phase approximation RPA . We show that the system...

Removal energies and hyperfine constants of the lowest four ns , np1/2 , and np3/2 states in Na, K, Rb, and Cs are calculated; removal energies of the n57 –10 states and hyperfine constants of the n57 and 8 states in Fr are also calculated. The calculations are based on the relativistic single-double ~SD! approximation in which single and double excitations of Dirac-Hartree-Fock wave functions ...