Atmosphere-ocean InteractionClarendon Press, 1972 - 275 pages |
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Page 116
... advection velocity Up , and their horizontal advection can cause a preferential , resonant generation of some surface waves . When an idealized , rigid pressure pattern is advected over an array of barographs , an analysis of the traces ...
... advection velocity Up , and their horizontal advection can cause a preferential , resonant generation of some surface waves . When an idealized , rigid pressure pattern is advected over an array of barographs , an analysis of the traces ...
Page 117
... advection velocity . * Phillips assumed this advection velocity to be twenty - five times the friction velocity u as defined in eqn ( 5.2 ) below . It can be argued , however , that the advection velocity Up should be a function of ...
... advection velocity . * Phillips assumed this advection velocity to be twenty - five times the friction velocity u as defined in eqn ( 5.2 ) below . It can be argued , however , that the advection velocity Up should be a function of ...
Page 248
... advection alone to produce an observable change of surface temperature . Taken together with the fact that the amplitude and energy of the barotropic Rossby waves is rather small , it seems unlikely that this process could cause ...
... advection alone to produce an observable change of surface temperature . Taken together with the fact that the amplitude and energy of the barotropic Rossby waves is rather small , it seems unlikely that this process could cause ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
THE STATE OF MATTER NEAR THE INTERFACE | 42 |
SURFACE WAVES | 98 |
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advection air-sea amplitude angle approximately atmosphere baroclinic barotropic Brunt-Väisälä frequency bubbles cause changes circulation cloud components constant convection convergence Coriolis force Coriolis parameter cyclonic decrease density anomaly direction dissipation drag coefficient eddy effect Ekman layer equation expression flow fluctuations fluid flux frequency friction function geostrophic gravity waves group velocity height horizontal hurricane increase inertial infrared instability integral interactions interface inversion ITCZ latitude layer depth mean meridional mixed layer moisture molecular momentum motion observations ocean oscillations parameter perturbations phase phase velocity planetary boundary layer potential temperature pressure gradient processes propagation radiance radiation ratio region relatively represents resulting Reynolds number Reynolds stress Rossby waves scale sea surface sea-surface temperature shear specified spectrum storm surface temperature term thermocline transport tropical turbulent upwelling variable variations vector vertical viscosity vorticity wave number wavelength wind stress wind velocity zero zonal дх