Atmosphere-ocean InteractionClarendon Press, 1972 - 275 pages |
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Page 118
... instability theory of Kelvin and Helmholtz which was mentioned in the last chapter . In the presence of an inviscid wind of velocity U , this theory postulates a suction on the wave crests and an increased pressure on the troughs which ...
... instability theory of Kelvin and Helmholtz which was mentioned in the last chapter . In the presence of an inviscid wind of velocity U , this theory postulates a suction on the wave crests and an increased pressure on the troughs which ...
Page 175
... instability can then be expressed as a function of these numbers . In a theoretical study of the onset of instability in a viscous Ekman boundary layer , Lilly ( 1966 ) used a perturbation analysis to investigate the growth of wave ...
... instability can then be expressed as a function of these numbers . In a theoretical study of the onset of instability in a viscous Ekman boundary layer , Lilly ( 1966 ) used a perturbation analysis to investigate the growth of wave ...
Page 176
... instability was associated with the neglected terms in the simplified set and that it was of a viscous character since it vanishes at higher Reynolds numbers . The type I instability , by contrast , is basically inviscid . It first ...
... instability was associated with the neglected terms in the simplified set and that it was of a viscous character since it vanishes at higher Reynolds numbers . The type I instability , by contrast , is basically inviscid . It first ...
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