Atmosphere-ocean InteractionClarendon Press, 1972 - 275 pages |
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Page 16
... pressure gradient and by the Coriolis force alone . From eqn ( 1.34 ) it can be seen that they cannot be balanced by buoyancy either when Uw > 1 . g ' The external forcing functions become unimportant in this case and we must have an ...
... pressure gradient and by the Coriolis force alone . From eqn ( 1.34 ) it can be seen that they cannot be balanced by buoyancy either when Uw > 1 . g ' The external forcing functions become unimportant in this case and we must have an ...
Page 136
... pressure gradient is not affected by latitude . It increases with the wind velocity in fair weather conditions but tends to become independent of the wind in an intense revolving storm . In a hurricane , for example , the stress may be ...
... pressure gradient is not affected by latitude . It increases with the wind velocity in fair weather conditions but tends to become independent of the wind in an intense revolving storm . In a hurricane , for example , the stress may be ...
Page 240
... pressure gradient produces the so - called ' inverse barometer effect ' which involves a hydrostatic elevation of the sea surface by 1 cm for each millibar of air - pressure reduction . The Coriolis force can deflect a driven long ...
... pressure gradient produces the so - called ' inverse barometer effect ' which involves a hydrostatic elevation of the sea surface by 1 cm for each millibar of air - pressure reduction . The Coriolis force can deflect a driven long ...
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