Atmosphere-ocean InteractionClarendon Press, 1972 - 275 pages |
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... tend to distribute the momentum . in a way which is very different from the initial Lagrangian drift velocity ... tends to make the distribution more uniform . It is the normal development when a single property is involved . In a ...
... tend to distribute the momentum . in a way which is very different from the initial Lagrangian drift velocity ... tends to make the distribution more uniform . It is the normal development when a single property is involved . In a ...
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... tends to be distributed uniformly with depth below the mixed layer . Gradually , the vertical motion in the interior raises or lowers the iso- pycnic surfaces there . The resulting secondary pressure variations tend to produce ...
... tends to be distributed uniformly with depth below the mixed layer . Gradually , the vertical motion in the interior raises or lowers the iso- pycnic surfaces there . The resulting secondary pressure variations tend to produce ...
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... tends to be about 8 ° C below its latitudinal mean . A tongue of abnormally cold surface water usually extends from there westwards along the equator for a distance of some hundred degrees of longitude or well over 10 000 km . The width ...
... tends to be about 8 ° C below its latitudinal mean . A tongue of abnormally cold surface water usually extends from there westwards along the equator for a distance of some hundred degrees of longitude or well over 10 000 km . The width ...
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