Atmosphere-ocean InteractionClarendon Press, 1972 - 275 pages |
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... mean horizontal motion with the symbol d / dt now denoting a differentiation following this mean motion . An equation for the change of turbulent kinetic energy can be obtained by expressing all physical variables in eqn ( 1.42 ) as ...
... mean horizontal motion with the symbol d / dt now denoting a differentiation following this mean motion . An equation for the change of turbulent kinetic energy can be obtained by expressing all physical variables in eqn ( 1.42 ) as ...
Page 91
... mean monthly short - wave irradiances may be found also in Budyko's ( 1956 ) treatise . The effect of clouds on the total short - wave irradiance of the surface ( J ) was represented by Kimball on the basis of data from continental ...
... mean monthly short - wave irradiances may be found also in Budyko's ( 1956 ) treatise . The effect of clouds on the total short - wave irradiance of the surface ( J ) was represented by Kimball on the basis of data from continental ...
Page 128
... mean wave height H , and the mean height of the highest tenth of waves : H1 = 2.83 ( 52 ) * , A = 1.77 ( ( 2 ) + , H1 % = 3.60 ( 2 ) ( 4.63 ) Spectral representations of the sea states were used by Barber and others since the end of ...
... mean wave height H , and the mean height of the highest tenth of waves : H1 = 2.83 ( 52 ) * , A = 1.77 ( ( 2 ) + , H1 % = 3.60 ( 2 ) ( 4.63 ) Spectral representations of the sea states were used by Barber and others since the end of ...
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