Atmosphere-ocean InteractionClarendon Press, 1972 - 275 pages |
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Page 36
... propagation . If waves with different wavelengths propagate with different velocities , they must smear out the energy of the packet over increasingly larger volumes or areas with a corresponding reduction in energy density . This ...
... propagation . If waves with different wavelengths propagate with different velocities , they must smear out the energy of the packet over increasingly larger volumes or areas with a corresponding reduction in energy density . This ...
Page 104
... propagate from still water into a current . The frequency , as recorded by a fixed observer , remains invariant in this ... propagation . If a wave on still water is characterized by a phase speed c and a wave number k and if the ...
... propagate from still water into a current . The frequency , as recorded by a fixed observer , remains invariant in this ... propagation . If a wave on still water is characterized by a phase speed c and a wave number k and if the ...
Page 106
... propagation at the top of their orbits in the plane of the crests is slightly faster than the backward movement in the plane of the troughs . They , therefore , do not go round and round on closed circles but experience a slow mean ...
... propagation at the top of their orbits in the plane of the crests is slightly faster than the backward movement in the plane of the troughs . They , therefore , do not go round and round on closed circles but experience a slow mean ...
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