Atmosphere-ocean InteractionClarendon Press, 1972 - 275 pages |
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Page 232
... storm . Behind the storm , the baroclinic response is a mixture of an upwelling pattern on the scale of the storm and a wake of inertio - gravity waves . The radiation of energy by these waves from the perturbation centre occurs at ...
... storm . Behind the storm , the baroclinic response is a mixture of an upwelling pattern on the scale of the storm and a wake of inertio - gravity waves . The radiation of energy by these waves from the perturbation centre occurs at ...
Page 233
... storm track is 1 / a1 , while that along the track is five times as long . The pattern is , therefore , fore - shortened , and the spreading angle of the wake wedge is actually even smaller than apparent . It becomes wider if the ...
... storm track is 1 / a1 , while that along the track is five times as long . The pattern is , therefore , fore - shortened , and the spreading angle of the wake wedge is actually even smaller than apparent . It becomes wider if the ...
Page 239
... storm translation , the quantitative discussions of these air - sea feedback effects are likely to be very complicated . Storm surges Coastal floods are undoubtedly the most deadly feature of hurricanes and other marine storms . A surge ...
... storm translation , the quantitative discussions of these air - sea feedback effects are likely to be very complicated . Storm surges Coastal floods are undoubtedly the most deadly feature of hurricanes and other marine storms . A surge ...
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