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Charnock Relationship

The Charnock Relationship is an empirical formula in air–sea interaction theory that relates sea surface roughness to wind stress by introducing a proportionality constant between the aerodynamic roughness length and the ratio of surface stress to air density.

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Charnock's FormulaCharnock's Relation

Parents

Publications

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Coefficients for sea surface wind stress, heat flux, and wind profiles as a function of wind speed and temperature

Stuart D. Smith · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 1988 · 1.1K citations

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Wind‐stress coefficients over sea surface from breeze to hurricane

Jin Wu · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 1982 · 577 citations

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On the wave age dependence of wind stress over pure wind seas

William M. Drennan, Hans C. Graber, Danièle Hauser et al. · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 2003 · 377 citations · Full text

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A new evaluation of the wind stress coefficient over water surfaces

J. Amorocho, Johannes J. DeVries · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 1980 · 238 citations

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The Sensitivity of the ECMWF Model to the Parameterization of Evaporation from the Tropical Oceans

M. J. Miller, A. Beljaars, T. N. Palmer · Journal of Climate · 1992 · 210 citations

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Authors

63

  1. LM
    L. Mahrt

    Oregon State University, United States

    2 publications · 56 citations

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  2. SD
    Serge Desjardins

    Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canada

    2 publications · 48 citations

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  3. RL
    R. Lalbeharry

    Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canada

    2 publications · 48 citations

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  4. JM
    Jocelyn Mailhot

    Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canada

    2 publications · 48 citations

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  5. DV
    Dean Vickers

    Oregon State University, United States

    2 publications · 56 citations

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Institutions

26

  1. Oregon State University

    Corvallis, United States

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    85 citations

  2. Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences

    Beijing, China

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    252 citations

  3. The University of Queensland

    Brisbane, Australia

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    105 citations

  4. European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts

    Reading, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    630 citations

  5. University of Rhode Island

    Kingston, United States

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    198 citations

  6. Hydroacoustics (United States)

    Henrietta, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    157 citations

  7. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    252 citations

  8. University of Miami

    Coral Gables, United States

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    754 citations

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Venues

  1. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

    JGR · 8 publications · 2.5K citations

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  2. Journal of Physical Oceanography

    4 publications · 211 citations

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  3. Geophysical Research Letters

    2 publications · 101 citations

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  4. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

    JAMC · 1 publications · 27 citations

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  5. Journal of Fluid Mechanics

    1 publications · 157 citations

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