Atmosphere-ocean InteractionClarendon Press, 1972 - 275 pages |
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Page 88
... height and time . It is convenient in these circumstances to replace the concept of a volume attenuation coefficient by a mass attenuation coefficient B ' and the actual height difference by an optical mass or optical thickness u ...
... height and time . It is convenient in these circumstances to replace the concept of a volume attenuation coefficient by a mass attenuation coefficient B ' and the actual height difference by an optical mass or optical thickness u ...
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 ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
THE STATE OF MATTER NEAR THE INTERFACE | 42 |
SURFACE WAVES | 98 |
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