OCEANIC MICROMETEOROLOGICAL FIELD EXPERIMENTS - AN HISTORICAL-PERSPECTIVE

This paper provides an historical perspective on micrometeorological field experiments designed to evaluate air-sea interaction processes. Of course, marine meteorology is much older, and air-sea interaction has always been an inevitable part of it. But only in this century have the tools been developed to go from qualitative understanding towards quantitative measurements of interactions. © 1990 Kluwer Academic Publishers.