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In this paper, we use the inertial coupling relation as a similarity model for the air–sea boundary layer, to predict the 10-m drag coefficient. Excellent agreement with the commonly used statistical relationship of Garratt (1992) is found for a fully developed growing wind wave sea with a constant inertial drag coefficient, KI = 1.5 × 10−3. This suggests that the inertial coupling model can be used to realistically predict the 10 m drag coefficient under more general wind wave conditions.
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Acknowledgements The paper was completed while JATB was a Fellow at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg in Delmenhorst, Germany, in July and August 2004. The comments of two anonymous reviewers are gratefully acknowledged.
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Bye, J., Wolff, JO. Prediction of the drag law for air–sea momentum exchange. Ocean Dynamics 54, 577–580 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10236-004-0105-8
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10236-004-0105-8