Atmosphere-ocean InteractionClarendon Press, 1972 - 275 pages |
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... upwelling radiance which is trans- mitted to the observer . Except for B - the black - body emittance at surface temperature - all these quantities vary with the viewing angles . The increase of r , as one looks out more horizontally ...
... upwelling radiance which is trans- mitted to the observer . Except for B - the black - body emittance at surface temperature - all these quantities vary with the viewing angles . The increase of r , as one looks out more horizontally ...
Page 249
... upwelling , it is a local wind - stress which drives the surface water away from the coast , that causes the upwelling . The width of the upwelling region is then given by eqn ( 7.24 ) , provided only that the stress patterns which ...
... upwelling , it is a local wind - stress which drives the surface water away from the coast , that causes the upwelling . The width of the upwelling region is then given by eqn ( 7.24 ) , provided only that the stress patterns which ...
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... upwelling permits a radiational temperature increase of the equatorial surface waters . The energy input into the Hadley circulation is then increased again , and the whole cycle can repeat itself . Bjerknes argues that the variations ...
... upwelling permits a radiational temperature increase of the equatorial surface waters . The energy input into the Hadley circulation is then increased again , and the whole cycle can repeat itself . Bjerknes argues that the variations ...
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