Comparative heat and gas exchange measurements in the Heidelberg Aeolotron, a large annular wind-wave tank

Nagel, L.; Krall, K. E.; Jähne, B.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/os-11-111-2015

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26 Jan 2015

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| 26 Jan 2015

Comparative heat and gas exchange measurements in the Heidelberg Aeolotron, a large annular wind-wave tank

L. Nagel, K. E. Krall, and B. Jähne

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RC C605: 'Review for Nagel et al 2014', Mingxi Yang, 21 Jul 2014
RC C824: 'Review of discussion paper', Jamie Shutler, 23 Sep 2014
AC C1048: 'Author response to reviewer 1', Bernd Jähne, 21 Nov 2014
AC C1054: 'Author response to reviewer 2', Bernd Jähne, 21 Nov 2014
AC C1060: 'Revised PDF of manuscript', Bernd Jähne, 21 Nov 2014

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A comparative study of simultaneous heat and gas exchange measurements was performed in the large annular Heidelberg Air-Sea Interaction Facility, the Aeolotron, under homogeneous water surface conditions, including the measurement of the Schmidt number exponent. Provided the Schmidt number exponent is known and that the heated patch is large enough to reach the thermal equilibrium, it is possible to scale heat transfer velocities measured by active thermography to gas transfer velocities.