AeroBulk is a FORTRAN90-based library and suite of tools (including a C++ interface) that feature state of the art parameterizations to estimate turbulent air-sea fluxes by means of the traditional aerodynamic bulk formulae.

These turbulent fluxes, namely, wind stress, evaporation (latent heat flux) and sensible heat flux, are estimated using the sea surface temperature (bulk or skin), and the near-surface atmospheric surface state: wind speed, air temperature and humidity. If the cool-skin/warm-layer schemes need to be called to estimate the skin temperature, surface downwelling shortwave and longwave radiative fluxes are required.

> Bulk formula and their parameterizations

AeroBulk relies on the following traditional set of bulk formula to estimate turbulent fluxes at the air-sea interface:

$$ \vec{\tau} = \rho\ C_D \ \vec{U}_z \ U_B $$

$$ E = \rho \ C_E \ \big[ q_s - q_z \big] \ U_B $$

$$ Q_L = -L_v \ E $$

$$ Q_H = \rho \ C_H \ C_P \ \big[ \theta_z - T_s \big] \ U_B $$

where $\rho$ is the density of air. The $z$ subscript relates to the reference height above the air-sea interface (generally z=10m). $\vec{U}_z$ is the wind…