Atmosphere-ocean InteractionClarendon Press, 1972 - 275 pages |
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Page 60
... Bubbles and spray The air - sea boundary is not a simply connected surface . Bubbles in the water and droplets in the air extend the area of interaction between the two fluids . They also affect the rate and the character of that ...
... Bubbles and spray The air - sea boundary is not a simply connected surface . Bubbles in the water and droplets in the air extend the area of interaction between the two fluids . They also affect the rate and the character of that ...
Page 64
... bubbles causes the area over which bubbles actually rise to be appreciably larger than the visible white - cap area . In the latter , bubbles may be seen to rise to the surface for a minute or more , but they continue to give the water ...
... bubbles causes the area over which bubbles actually rise to be appreciably larger than the visible white - cap area . In the latter , bubbles may be seen to rise to the surface for a minute or more , but they continue to give the water ...
Page 65
... bubble . The ejection speed of these drops is strikingly fast , but decreases with increasing bubble diameter from nearly 100 m / s for a bubble diameter of about 0.007 cm to 10 m / s for bubbles with a diameter of 1 mm . These ejection ...
... bubble . The ejection speed of these drops is strikingly fast , but decreases with increasing bubble diameter from nearly 100 m / s for a bubble diameter of about 0.007 cm to 10 m / s for bubbles with a diameter of 1 mm . These ejection ...
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