Atmosphere-ocean InteractionClarendon Press, 1972 - 275 pages |
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Page 54
... temperature change in an air parcel which is always less than 0.2 ° . This justifies the approximation of the potential by the actual temperature in the discussion of many boundary layer problems . When dry air parcels are mixed , the ...
... temperature change in an air parcel which is always less than 0.2 ° . This justifies the approximation of the potential by the actual temperature in the discussion of many boundary layer problems . When dry air parcels are mixed , the ...
Page 198
... potential temperature , but also a vertically uniform wind velocity V. A velocity discontinuity V - vg occurs at the outer edge of this mixed layer . Though these assumptions obviously oversimplify the real atmosphere , the discussion ...
... potential temperature , but also a vertically uniform wind velocity V. A velocity discontinuity V - vg occurs at the outer edge of this mixed layer . Though these assumptions obviously oversimplify the real atmosphere , the discussion ...
Page 208
... potential temperature must increase if the pressure decreases while the actual air temperature remains constant . From eqn ( 2.17 ) , which defined the mixing ratio , it follows that this quantity also increases with decreasing ...
... potential temperature must increase if the pressure decreases while the actual air temperature remains constant . From eqn ( 2.17 ) , which defined the mixing ratio , it follows that this quantity also increases with decreasing ...
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