Download or read book Impact of Realistic Mean Flow on Equatorial Waves in the Pacific Ocean written by Howard Franklin Seidel and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tropical Instability Waves in the Pacific Ocean written by Simona Masina and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book High Resolution Numerical Modelling of the Atmosphere and Ocean written by Kevin Hamilton and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-12-25 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly relevant text documents the first international meeting focused specifically on high-resolution atmospheric and oceanic modeling. It was held recently at the Earth Simulator Center in Yokohama, Japan. Rather than producing a standard conference proceedings volume, the editors have decided to compose this volume entirely of papers written by invited speakers at the meeting, who report on their most exciting recent results involving high resolution modeling.
Download or read book Observations of Wave mean Flow Interaction in the Pacific Equatorial Undercurrent written by Esther C. Brady and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dynamics of the Equatorial Ocean written by John P. Boyd and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive introduction to the theory of equatorially-confined waves and currents in the ocean. Among the topics treated are inertial and shear instabilities, wave generation by coastal reflection, semiannual and annual cycles in the tropic sea, transient equatorial waves, vertically-propagating beams, equatorial Ekman layers, the Yoshida jet model, generation of coastal Kelvin waves from equatorial waves by reflection, Rossby solitary waves, and Kelvin frontogenesis. A series of appendices on midlatitude theories for waves, jets and wave reflections add further material to assist the reader in understanding the differences between the same phenomenon in the equatorial zone versus higher latitudes.
Download or read book Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory the Report for Fiscal Year written by Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Impacts of the Mean Flow on Low frequency Equatorial Waves and the Tropical Atmospheric Response to Stationary Heating written by Xiaosu Xie and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tropical Instability Waves and Mixing in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean written by Ryan Mahony Holmes and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unique dynamics of the equatorial oceans play an important role in the El Nino - Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the ocean's meridional overturning circulation (MOC), both of which are critical processes that drive global climate variability on a range of time-scales. This dissertation makes a number of contributions to our understanding of equatorial ocean dynamics, lateral and vertical mixing at the equator, the behavior of equatorial waves and deep equatorial mixing, with implications for both ENSO and the MOC. The main contributions are: 1) Tropical instability waves (TIWs), the main drivers of lateral eddy mixing in the eastern equatorial Pacific, share a number of dynamical features with submesoscale flows in the mid-latitudes. In particular, their formation depends on the detailed frontal dynamics and sharp vertical gradients around their fringes, with implications for TIW energetics and the accurate representation of TIWs in low-resolution ocean models. 2) TIWs drive modulations in vertical mixing by altering the vertical shear of the Equatorial Undercurrent (EUC) through horizontal vortex stretching. This modulation can drive net sea surface cooling over the eastern Pacific cold tongue that may partially offset the warming driven by TIW lateral mixing. The magnitude of the net cooling depends on the mixing scheme used to parameterize vertical mixing, with implications for the role of TIWs in the mixed-layer heat budget in different ocean models. 3) Downwelling (upwelling) equatorial Kelvin waves can drive large decreases (increases) in the amplitude of the TIW field in the eastern equatorial Pacific and thus TIW-driven lateral and vertical mixing. The Kelvin waves alter the strength and structure of the background flow from which the TIWs gain energy, resulting in complex changes to the TIW energy budget. One major sink of TIW energy, the downward radiation of waves, is strongly altered with implications for deep and abyssal equatorial ocean circulation. 4) Mixing in the abyssal equatorial Pacific can exhibit a seafloor-intensified vertical structure even over smooth topography. The generation and breaking of lee waves over smooth topography at low latitudes is one possible mechanism that could contribute to this mixing. However, downward-propagating equatorial waves generated at the surface by TIWs or wind events could also supply energy for seafloor-intensified mixing through two possible mechanisms, wave trapping due to the horizontal component of Earth's rotation and inertial instability initiated by wave-driven displacement of fluid away from the equator. These results suggest that more attention should be devoted to measuring and understanding mixing over smooth topography in the abyssal equatorial oceans because of its potential role in the global overturning circulation.
Download or read book Coupled Ocean atmosphere Models written by Jacques C. J. Nihoul and published by Elsevier Publishing Company. This book was released on 1985 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exchange of momentum, heat, moisture, gases (such as CO 2 and O 2 ) and salt between the atmosphere and the ocean is a phenomenon of paramount importance for the dynamics of the atmosphere and the ocean. With the pressing need for reliable climate forecast (e.g. to deal with severe food and energy problems) interactive ocean-atmosphere models have become one of the main objectives of geophysical fluid dynamics. This volume provides the first state-of-the-art review of interactive ocean-atmosphere modelling and its application to climates. The papers are by active and eminent scientists from different countries and different disciplines. They provide a up-to-date survey of major recent discoveries and valuable recommendations for future research."
Download or read book Fundamentals of Tropical Climate Dynamics written by Tim Li and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-06-28 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook introduces fundamental dynamics of tropical atmosphere and ocean useful for advanced graduate courses in atmospheric and climate sciences. It presents an overview of simple atmospheric and oceanic models, as well as the observed phenomena associated with major climate modes in the tropics. It provides students with an up-to-date understanding of the dynamics of tropical climate and weather phenomena. A particular focus is given to scale interactions and atmosphere-ocean interactions associated with tropical mean climate (such as ITCZ asymmetry and annual cycles), synoptic-scale variability (such as synoptic wave trains, easterly waves and tropical cyclones), intraseasonal oscillations (such as Madden-Julian Oscillation and boreal summer intraseasonal oscillation), and interannual variability (such as El Niño-Southern Oscillation and Indian Ocean Dipole). Theoretical and conceptual models are presented for better understanding of physical mechanisms behind the observational phenomena. This book aims to motivate graduate students in atmospheric sciences and oceanography by providing them with the key methods and tools necessary to conduct research.
Download or read book Geophysical Fluid Dynamics written by Joseph Pedlosky and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 723 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of the widely acclaimed Geophysical Fluid Dynamics by Joseph Pedlosky offers the reader a high-level, unified treatment of the theory of the dynamics of large-scale motions of the oceans and atmosphere. Revised and updated, it includes expanded discussions of * the fundamentals of geostrophic turbulence * the theory of wave-mean flow interaction * thermocline theory * finite amplitude barocline instability.
Download or read book Interacting Climates of Ocean Basins written by Carlos R. Mechoso and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-26 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive review of interactions between the climates of different ocean basins and their key contributions to global climate variability and change. Providing essential theory and discussing outstanding examples as well as impacts on monsoons, it a useful resource for graduate students and researchers in the atmospheric and ocean sciences.
Download or read book Equatorial Pacific Ocean Variability written by John C. Kindle and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Intraseasonal Variability in the Atmosphere Ocean Climate System written by William K.-M. Lau and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-06-10 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive review of intra-seasonal variability (ISV); the contents are balanced between observation, theory and modeling. Starting with an overview of ISV and historical observations, the book addresses the coupling between ocean and atmosphere, and the worldwide role of ISV in monsoon variability. Also considered are the connections between oscillations like the Madden, Julian and El Nino/Southern and short-term climate.
Download or read book Wave Propagation in the Central Equatorial Pacific Ocean written by Kathleen A. Donohue and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Satellite Altimetry Over Oceans and Land Surfaces written by Detlef Stammer and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 954 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Satellite remote sensing, in particular by radar altimetry, is a crucial technique for observations of the ocean surface and of many aspects of land surfaces, and of paramount importance for climate and environmental studies. This book provides a state-of-the-art overview of the satellite altimetry techniques and related missions, and reviews the most-up-to date applications to ocean dynamics and sea level. It also discusses related space-based observations of the ocean surface and of the marine geoid, as well as applications of satellite altimetry to the cryosphere and land surface waters; operational oceanography and its applications to navigation, fishing and defense.
