The MIT Air-Sea Interaction Lab
The MIT Air-Sea Interaction Lab has been involved since 1999 in experimental investigations of drag and enthalpy transfer coefficients over the ocean at high wind speed. The lab is also used for evaporation retardation experiments using molecular monolayers and other substances.
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Origins of the various kinds of sea spray droplets. Splash droplets arise where wave crests spill at the site of whitecaps. Most film and jet droplets are produced where bubbles rise and burst. Spume droplets are torn directly from the crests of steep waves. |
A description
of the experimental apparatus, experimental methodology and the goals of the
program can be found in the following links:
“EXPERIMENTAL
INVESTIGATION OF AIR-SEA TRANSFER OF MOMENTUM AND ENTHALPY AT HIGH WIND SPEED”
by
M. Alamaro, K. A. Emanuel, J.
J. Colton, W. R. McGillis, and J. Edson. 25th Conference on Hurricanes
and Tropical Meteorology, April 2002.
"Wind
Wave Tank for Experimental Investigation of Momentum and Enthalpy Transfer from
the Ocean Surface at High Wind Speed", A Thesis by M. Alamaro, May
2001.
“Hurricane Potential
Intensity Theory” By Kerry Emanuel.
“Feasibility
Experiments into the Use of Hexadecanol for Hurricane Mitigation and the
Planning and Construction of the Monolayer Evaporation Retardation Laboratory”,
A Thesis by Yu-Lun Lawrence Hsin, June 2002.
"EYES
ON THE STORMY SEASON, SCIENTISTS PLOT NEW DEFENSES AGAINST HURRICANES"
By David L. Chandler, The Boston Globe August 23, 1999.
"Experimental
Investigation of Air-Sea Transfer of Momentum and Enthalpy at High Wind Speed"
By Moshe Alamaro, Kerry A. Emanuel, Wade
R. McGillis. Reviewed by Boundary
Layer Meteorology.
The Wind Wave Tank at the MIT Air-Sea Interaction Lab
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Faculty, Research and
Technical Staff:
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David Bono |
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Wade McGillis |
Peter Morley |
Rodolfo Maldonado |
Contact Us: hurricanelab-www@mit.edu