The Role of Wind Waves in Dynamicsof the Air-Sea Interface amg

Wind waves are cons­ide­red as an inte­rmed­iate small-scale dynamic process at the air-sea inte­rface, which modu­lates radi­cally middle-scale dynamic proc­esses of the boun­dary layers in water and air. It is shown that with the aim of a quan­tita­tive desc­ript­ion of the impact said, one can use the nume­rical wind wave models which are added with the blocks of the dynamic atmo­sph­ere boun­dary layer (DABL) and the dynamic water upper layer (DWUL). A math­emat­ical form­aliz­ation for the problem of energy and mome­ntum tran­sfer from the wind to the upper ocean is given on the basis of the well known math­emat­ical repr­esen­tati­ons for mech­ani­sms of a wind wave spec­trum evol­ution. The problem is solved quan­tita­tiv­ely by means of intr­oduc­ing special system para­met­ers: the rela­tive rate of the wave energy input, IRE, and the rela­tive rate of the wave energy diss­ipat­ion, DRE. For two simple wave-origin situ­ati­ons, the certain esti­mati­ons for values of IRE and DRE are found, and the exam­ples of calc­ulat­ing an impact of a wind sea on the char­acte­rist­ics of both the boun­dary layer of atmo­sph­ere and the water upper layer are given. The results obta­ined permit to state that the models of wind waves of the new (fifth) gene­rat­ion, which are added with the blocks of the DABL and the DWUL, could be an esse­ntial chain of the general model desc­rib­ing the ocean-atmo­sph­ere circ­ulat­ion.