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9780195066180

Atmosphere-Ocean Interaction

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  • ISBN13:

    9780195066180

  • ISBN10:

    0195066189

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1994-11-10
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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With both the growing importance of integrating studies of air-sea interaction and the interest in the general problem of global warming, the appearance of the second edition of this popular text is especially welcome. Thoroughly updated and revised, the authors have retained the accessible, comprehensive expository style that distinguished the earlier edition. Topics include the state of matter near the interface, radiation, surface wind waves, turbulent transfer near the interface, the planetary boundary layer, atmospherically-forced perturbations in the oceans, and large-scale forcing by sea surface buoyancy fluxes. This book will be welcomed by students and professionals in meteorology, physical oceanography, physics and ocean engineering.

Table of Contents

Basic Concepts
Notation
Conservation Equations
Turbulence and Turbulent Transport
Statistical Description of Fluctuating Quantities
Scaling Techniques and Similarity Relations
The State of Matter Near the Interface
Sea Water
Moist Air
The Liquid-Gas Interface
Bubbles and Spray
Sea Ice
Radiation
Definitions
Solar Radiation
Terrestrial Radiation
Empirical Formulas for Estimating the Surface Radiation Budget
Surface Wind Waves
Basic Dynamics of Harmonic Waves in Fluids
Small Amplitude Waves at the Air-Sea Interface
Second-Order Quantities and Approximations
Sources and Sinks of Surface Wave Energy
The Evolution and Parameterization of Surface Wave Spectra
Turbulent Transfer Near the Interface
The Structure of the Interface and Adjacent Layers
The Effect of Stratification
Dynamic Interactions Between Wind and Sea Surface
Transport of Trace Gases Across the Interface
The Sea Surface Temperature (SST) and the Energy Budget
Methods to Observe the Fluxes in the Atmospheric Surface Layer
The Planetary Boundary Layer
The Ekman Boundary Layer
Coherent Structures in the Planetary Boundary Layer
Parametric Representation of PBL Fluxes and Profiles
Mixed-Layer Models
Atmospherically-Forced Perturbations in the Oceans
Perturbations of a Shallow, Homogenous Ocean
The Two-Layer Ocean Model
Internal Inertio-Gravity Waves
The Response of the Open Ocean to Moving Cyclonic Storms
The Effect of Lateral Boundaries on Wind-Forced Perturbations
Rossby or Planetary Waves
Equatorial Currents and Perturbations
Large-Scale Forcing by Sea Surface Buoyancy Fluxes
The Predominant Direction and Variability of Air-Sea Interactions
Deep Convection
The Tropical Atmosphere
Some Low-Frequency Ocean-Atmosphere Feedback Processes
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