Atmosphere-ocean InteractionClarendon Press, 1972 - 275 pages |
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Page 58
... surface tension of sea water is therefore slightly greater than that of fresh water at the same temperature . Fleming and Revelle ( 1939 ) suggest an empirical expression of the form : y ( sea water ) = 75.63-0.1447 + 0-2218 , where T ...
... surface tension of sea water is therefore slightly greater than that of fresh water at the same temperature . Fleming and Revelle ( 1939 ) suggest an empirical expression of the form : y ( sea water ) = 75.63-0.1447 + 0-2218 , where T ...
Page 78
... sea surface in clear weather increases with the sun's zenith distance from 16 per cent when the height of the sun is 60 ° to about 37 per cent when it is 10 ° above the horizon . The radiance is more nearly omnidirectional when clouds ...
... sea surface in clear weather increases with the sun's zenith distance from 16 per cent when the height of the sun is 60 ° to about 37 per cent when it is 10 ° above the horizon . The radiance is more nearly omnidirectional when clouds ...
Page 90
... sea surface . A low cloud layer with a thickness of , at most 200 m , can absorb all infrared radiation . The radiation emitted downward from the cloud base in this case is equal to black - body radiation . This makes it much larger ...
... sea surface . A low cloud layer with a thickness of , at most 200 m , can absorb all infrared radiation . The radiation emitted downward from the cloud base in this case is equal to black - body radiation . This makes it much larger ...
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