Do we have the air-sea interaction mechanisms discussed in the literature?
Chelton and Xie 2010 argue that winds (and stress etc) respond to mesoscale SST locally through a boundary layer response (through changes in stability). Do we see this in CM2.6 or NCAR model?
[ ] Reproduce Figure 1 e.
If we can confirm that these air-sea interaction mechanisms are active, we would like to dig into what is causing the flux enhancement at small scales.
We know that most of the enhancement we see is a result of filtering the velocity field.
There are papers from 1990s discussing gustiness (small-scale winds) as a mechanism to enhance surface fluxes.
Do we have the air-sea interaction mechanisms discussed in the literature?
If we can confirm that these air-sea interaction mechanisms are active, we would like to dig into what is causing the flux enhancement at small scales.