Atmosphere-ocean InteractionClarendon Press, 1972 - 275 pages |
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Page 107
... vorticity at the interface . Viscosity diffuses this vorticity into both fluids . The distance to which this vorticity penetrates before its sign changes can depend only on the viscosities v and the frequency w . For a particular ...
... vorticity at the interface . Viscosity diffuses this vorticity into both fluids . The distance to which this vorticity penetrates before its sign changes can depend only on the viscosities v and the frequency w . For a particular ...
Page 120
... vorticity is not con- served within the matched layer . During their slow circulation there , the particles below z acquire the relatively high vorticity of the lower region by viscous diffusion . When they rise into the 120 § 4.3 ...
... vorticity is not con- served within the matched layer . During their slow circulation there , the particles below z acquire the relatively high vorticity of the lower region by viscous diffusion . When they rise into the 120 § 4.3 ...
Page 121
... vorticity and acquire the lower vorticity that charac- terizes their new environment . The downward moving air has , there- fore , less vorticity than the upward moving air . Approximately the difference An ' ∞ d an ' faz ≈ 8 Ə2Ü Əz2 ...
... vorticity and acquire the lower vorticity that charac- terizes their new environment . The downward moving air has , there- fore , less vorticity than the upward moving air . Approximately the difference An ' ∞ d an ' faz ≈ 8 Ə2Ü Əz2 ...
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