Atmosphere-ocean InteractionClarendon Press, 1972 - 275 pages |
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... barotropic mode ( s = 0 ) is independent of height and attributable to pressure gradients which are a function of the sea surface slope . To order of the Boussinesq approximation 0 - д ρνο ≈ Po дг дг Vpó = gpVL ≈ gpovs . ( 7.3 ) The ...
... barotropic mode ( s = 0 ) is independent of height and attributable to pressure gradients which are a function of the sea surface slope . To order of the Boussinesq approximation 0 - д ρνο ≈ Po дг дг Vpó = gpVL ≈ gpovs . ( 7.3 ) The ...
Page 235
... barotropic perturba- tions . For the same reason , we may question whether higher time derivatives are negligible in the treatment of barotropic Rossby waves . Fortunately , the amplitude of the barotropic disturbance is usually small ...
... barotropic perturba- tions . For the same reason , we may question whether higher time derivatives are negligible in the treatment of barotropic Rossby waves . Fortunately , the amplitude of the barotropic disturbance is usually small ...
Page 238
... barotropic Rossby waves with a velocity amplitude which was calculated to be less than 10 cm s - 1 . The velocity amplitude of the baroclinic waves was found to remain altogether negligible . The baroclinic response increases with ...
... barotropic Rossby waves with a velocity amplitude which was calculated to be less than 10 cm s - 1 . The velocity amplitude of the baroclinic waves was found to remain altogether negligible . The baroclinic response increases with ...
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