Research Article
Characteristics of Air-Sea Fluxes Based on In Situ Observations from a Platform in the Bohai Gulf during Early Mid-August 2011
Table 2
Wave-coherent features of wind, air temperature, and SST.
| | Category | Grouped by wave shape | Grouped by wave height | | Wind wave | Swell wave | Level-2
(0.1–0.4 m) | Level-3
(0.5–1.2 m) | Level-4
(1.3–2.4 m) |
| | Average wind speed (m/s) | 3.6 | 1.5 | 1.8 | 3.0 | 9.6 | | Maximum wind speed (m/s) | 13.8 | 4.1 | 7.8 | 9.2 | 13.8 | | Average SST (m/s) | 26.1 | 25.9 | 25.9 | 26.1 | 26.0 | | Average AT (°C) | 25.7 | 25.8 | 26.0 | 25.4 | 23.8 | | Average air-sea temperature difference (°C) | 0.4 | 0.1 | −0.1 | 0.7 | 2.2 | | Percentage among total samples (%) | 43 | 57 | 73.3 | 23.6 | 2.1 |
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