Measurements of the vertical water vapor transport and distribution within unstable atmospheric ground layers and the turbulent mass exchange coefficient
Measurements of the vertical water vapor transport and distribution within unstable atmospheric ground layers and the turbulent mass exchange coefficient
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1952-12
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Bunker, Andrew F.
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10.1575/1912/1062
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Oceanography
Ocean-atmosphere interaction
Ocean-atmosphere interaction
Abstract
The series of observations described in this
report were planned with the double purpose of measuring the evaporation and transport of water vapor from the ocean into an unstable atmosphere, and of studying the diffusion processes operating
in air of this stability class. Measured values of
the evaporation from ocean surfaces were conspicuously
absent from the meteorological literature
until Craig and Montgomery (1949) published
values for hydrostatically stable air. The present
set of measurements extends our knowledge to
include evaporation into a hydrostatically unstable
air mass. In addition to evaporation values at the
surface, net transports of water vapor at many
levels up to 2000 meters have been measured.