2007: The coupled boundary layers and air-sea transfer experiment in low winds

Observations from a suite of platforms deployed in the coastal ocean south of Martha’s Vineyard are being combined with numerical models and simulations to investigate the processes that couple the atmosphere and ocean in low to moderate wind conditions. The need to better understand and model the interdependence of the ocean and atmosphere has long been recognized in the climate and weather communities. Work has been carried out to investigate how the upper ocean responds to the atmosphere, leading to 1-D models of upper ocean response to the atmosphere (e.g., Kraus and Turner, 1967