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Thermometric Measurements Of The Molecular Sublayer At The Air-Water Interface, B. Ward

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[1] A series of measurements was conducted in the AirSea Interaction Saltwater Tank (ASIST) to study the response of the air-water interfacial molecular sublayer under various heat flux and wind speed conditions. In-situ gradients were measured with a platinum-plated tungsten wire microthermometer, which resolved the temperature of the thermally conductive sublayer. Air-sea heat flux was controlled by changing the air-water temperature difference (ΔT^AW) and the wind speed, and measurements were made for three ΔT^AW regimes over a range of wind speeds. A function was fitted to the measured temperature profiles as a way of extracting the boundary …