Atmosphere-ocean InteractionClarendon Press, 1972 - 275 pages |
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Page 48
... air - sea interface in either direction . In addition , oxygen is supplied to the sunlit sea surface layers by photosynthesis . It is removed at all depths by the respiration of organisms and by the oxidation of dead material . In ...
... air - sea interface in either direction . In addition , oxygen is supplied to the sunlit sea surface layers by photosynthesis . It is removed at all depths by the respiration of organisms and by the oxidation of dead material . In ...
Page 49
... air - sea exchange has , therefore , no influence on these long - term variations . Molecular transport coefficients Molecular transports can become important particularly in the immediate vicinity of the air - sea interface . Values ...
... air - sea exchange has , therefore , no influence on these long - term variations . Molecular transport coefficients Molecular transports can become important particularly in the immediate vicinity of the air - sea interface . Values ...
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... air - sea interactions THOUGH the atmosphere and the oceans are on the average stably stratified , we find in each medium fluid masses of different densities at the same level . The associated available ... air-sea interactions.
... air - sea interactions THOUGH the atmosphere and the oceans are on the average stably stratified , we find in each medium fluid masses of different densities at the same level . The associated available ... air-sea interactions.
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