AIR-SEA EXCHANGE IN HURRICANESL: Synthesis of Observations from the Coupled Boundary Layer Air-Sea Transfer Experiment

Combining airborne remote, in situ, and expendable probe sensors with air-deployed ocean platforms provides a strategy for expanding knowledge of illusive high-wind air-sea fluxes in difficult-to-predict storms.

The CBLAST (see Table 1 for a list of the acronyms and their expansions used herein) experiment was conducted during 2000-05 to improve our fundamental understanding of physical processes at the air-sea interface. We focus here on the CBLASTHurricane component, which included experimental observations of the air-sea exchange process in high winds suitable for improving hurricane-track and intensity model physics. Other CBLAST activities focused on low-wind dynamics (Edson …