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William M. Drennan
Researcher at University of Miami
Publications - 99
Citations - 6327
William M. Drennan is an academic researcher from University of Miami. The author has contributed to research in topics: Wind wave & Wind stress. The author has an hindex of 38, co-authored 98 publications receiving 5818 citations. Previous affiliations of William M. Drennan include National Water Research Institute & University of Waterloo.
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Estimates of Kinetic Energy Dissipation under Breaking Waves
Eugene A. Terray,Mark A. Donelan,Y. C. Agrawal,William M. Drennan,Kimmo K. Kahma,Albert J. Williams,Paul A. Hwang,S.A. Kitaigorodskii +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a scaling for the rate of dissipation based on wind and wave parameters, and concluded that the dissipation rate under breaking waves depends on depth, to varying degrees, in three stages.
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Air–Sea Exchange in Hurricanes: Synthesis of Observations from the Coupled Boundary Layer Air–Sea Transfer Experiment
Peter G. Black,Eric A. D'Asaro,William M. Drennan,Jeffrey R. French,Pearn P. Niiler,Thomas B. Sanford,Eric Terrill,Edward J. Walsh,Jun A. Zhang +8 more
TL;DR: The Coupled Boundary Layer Air-Sea Transfer (CBLAST) field program, conducted from 2002 to 2004, has provided a wealth of new air-sea interaction observations in hurricanes.
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Enhanced dissipation of kinetic energy beneath surface waves
Y. C. Agrawal,Eugene A. Terray,Mark A. Donelan,Paul A. Hwang,Albert J. Williams,William M. Drennan,Kimmo K. Kahma,S. A. Krtaigorodskii +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report observations of turbulence in Lake Ontario, taken under conditions of strong wave breaking, which reveal a greatly enhanced dissipation rate of kinetic energy close to the air-water interface, relative to the predictions of wall-layer theory.
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On the wave age dependence of wind stress over pure wind seas
TL;DR: In this paper, the relationship between the dimensionless roughness and inverse wave age is found to be zo/σ = 13.4 (u*/cp)3.4, where zo is the surface roughness length, σ is the standard deviation of the surface elevation, u* is the friction velocity, and cp is the wave phase speed at the peak of the spectrum.
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The Air–Sea Momentum Flux in Conditions of Wind Sea and Swell
TL;DR: In this paper, direct measurements of momentum, heat, and water vapor fluxes were obtained from a mast on the foredeck of a SWATH (small waterplane area, twin hull) ship in deep water off the state of Virginia.