Atmosphere-ocean InteractionClarendon Press, 1972 - 275 pages |
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Page 183
... meridional transport of global- angular momentum in synoptic - scale perturbations . Similarly , the velocity maximum near the top of the planetary boundary layer which was mentioned in the preceding section and which has been reported ...
... meridional transport of global- angular momentum in synoptic - scale perturbations . Similarly , the velocity maximum near the top of the planetary boundary layer which was mentioned in the preceding section and which has been reported ...
Page 238
... meridional current is necessarily unstable for Rossby waves because the variation of ß imposes variations of the relative vorticity with latitude . A zonal current is not affected in the same way . = A series of numerical discussions in ...
... meridional current is necessarily unstable for Rossby waves because the variation of ß imposes variations of the relative vorticity with latitude . A zonal current is not affected in the same way . = A series of numerical discussions in ...
Page 242
... meridional momentum in currents along the western rim of ocean basins was first explained by Stommel in 1948. It can be related to the westward propagation of Rossby waves ( see eqn ( 7.10 ) and following discussion ) . Alternatively ...
... meridional momentum in currents along the western rim of ocean basins was first explained by Stommel in 1948. It can be related to the westward propagation of Rossby waves ( see eqn ( 7.10 ) and following discussion ) . Alternatively ...
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