Atmosphere-ocean InteractionClarendon Press, 1972 - 275 pages |
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Page 95
... height of 5 km at latitude 25 ° . This agreement is not maintained for different cloud heights and latitudes . To conclude this section , it can be said that it usually is not too difficult to obtain a crude estimate of the short - wave ...
... height of 5 km at latitude 25 ° . This agreement is not maintained for different cloud heights and latitudes . To conclude this section , it can be said that it usually is not too difficult to obtain a crude estimate of the short - wave ...
Page 128
... height reported by visual observers . If spectra are similar , either the significant height or the variance can be used to specify the complete local frequency spectrum . This can be done through empirical or dimensional formulas ...
... height reported by visual observers . If spectra are similar , either the significant height or the variance can be used to specify the complete local frequency spectrum . This can be done through empirical or dimensional formulas ...
Page 240
... height , and this has to be added to the water rise produced by the linear effects specified by eqn ( 7.21 ) . Being proportional to the wave energy , the wave set - up is a function of the fetch over which the waves developed . It also ...
... height , and this has to be added to the water rise produced by the linear effects specified by eqn ( 7.21 ) . Being proportional to the wave energy , the wave set - up is a function of the fetch over which the waves developed . It also ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
THE STATE OF MATTER NEAR THE INTERFACE | 41 |
RADIATION | 71 |
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