The Ocean Surface [electronic resource] : Wave Breaking, Turbulent Mixing and Radio Probing /

Nonlinear wave dynamics -- A New Way to Calculate Steep Gravity Waves -- Nonlinear Water Wave Theory Via Pressure Formulation -- Particle Trajectories in Nonlinear Capillary Waves -- Wave Breaking and Nonlinear Instability Coupling -- Stability of a Random Inhomogeneous Field of Weakly Nonlinear Surface Gravity Waves with Application to the JONSWAP Study -- Initial Instability and Long-Time Evolution of Stokes Waves -- On Non-Linear Water Wave Groups and the Induced Mean Flow -- Numerical and Experimental Analysis of Nonlinear Deformation of Ocean Waves on 2-D and 3-D Sandbars -- Wave generation -- On the Growth of Gravity-Capillary Waves by Wind -- Nonlinear Waves in a Developing Process -- The Effect of Short Waves on the Transfer of Wind Momentum to Long Water Waves -- Measurements of Atmospheric Pressure over Surface Gravity Waves during KonTur -- Atmospheric Stability Effects on the Growth of Surface Gravity Waves -- New Aspects of the Turbulent Boundary Layer over Wind Waves -- Wave dynamics, wave statistics and wave modeling -- Spectral Characteristics of Breaking Waves -- The Fully Developed Wind-Sea Spectrum as a Solution of the Energy Balance Equation -- The Kinematics of Short Wave Modulation by Long Waves -- The Effect of Surface Contamination on the Drift Velocity of Water Waves -- Mathematical Modeling of Breaking Wave Statistics -- Numerical Modeling of Current-Wave Interaction -- Measurement and Analysis of Surface Waves in A Strong Current -- In Search of Universal Parametric Correlations for Wind Waves -- Sea-State Cycles -- Wave models -- On the Effect of Bottom Friction on Wind Sea -- A Parametric Wind Wave Model for Arbitrary Water Depths -- Shallow Water Intercomparison of Wave Models — Part I Three Different Concepts to Model Surface Waves in Finite Water Depth -- Shallow Water Intercomparison of Wave Models — Part II Results of Three Different Wave Models for Idealized Wind and Depth Situations -- Shallow Water Intercomparison of Wave Models — Part III -- A Coupled Discrete Wave Model MRI-II -- The TOHOKU-II Wave Model -- Wave dynamics and microwave probing -- Microwave Sensing of the Ocean Surface -- On the Hydrodynamics of Small-Scale Breaking Waves and Their Microwave Reflectivity Properties -- The Nature of Microwave Backscattering from Water Waves -- The Wave Field Dynamics Inferred from HF Radar Sea-Echo -- Doppler Spectra of Microwave Radar Echo Returned from Calm and Rough Sea Surfaces -- Measurements of Directional Sea Wave Spectra Using a Two-Frequency Microwave Scatterometer -- Measurements of Ocean Wave Spectra and Modulation Transfer Function with the Airborne Two Frequency Scatterometer -- Radar, SAR, SLAR, scatterometry -- An Algorithm of Microwave Backscattering from a Perturbed Sea Surface -- The Dependence of the Microwave Radar Cross Section on the Air-Sea Interaction and the Wave Slope -- Preliminary Results of Dual Polarized Radar Sea Scatter -- SLAR and In-Situ Observations of Wave-Current Interaction on the Columbia River Bar -- On the Effects of Ocean Surface Roughness on Emissivity and Reflectivity of Microwave Radiation -- Experimental Results of Sea-Surface Scattering by Airborne Microwave Scatterometer/Radiometer -- Radio Probing of Ocean Surface by Observing Multipath Fading Signal -- Scatterometry and altimetry case studies -- Effect of Wave-Current Interaction on the Determination of Volume Scattering Function of Microwave at Sea Surface -- Surface Ocean Circulation and Variability Determined from Satellite Altimetry -- Application of the Seasat Altimeter Data for Estimations of Sea Surface Height and Ocean Tide in the Northwest Pacific Ocean -- Remote sensor development -- MIROS — A Microwave Remote Sensor for the Ocean Surface -- The Design of Spaceborne Microwave Scatterometer -- On-Board Processing of Microwave Altimeter -- Simulation of Wind-Vector Estimation — Design Evaluation of Microwave Scatterometer - -- Drift current, wave breaking and turbulence -- Wind Waves and Wind-Generated Turbulence in the Water -- The Vertical Structure of Turbulence Beneath Gently Breaking Wind Waves -- Wind-Induced Water Turbulence -- The Structure of the Boundary Layer under Wind Waves -- Wave Breaking, Turbulence and Mixing -- Experimental Study on Turbulence Structures under Spilling Breakers -- Experimental Study on Wind Driven Current in a Wind-Wave Tank -- Observed Statistics of Breaking Ocean Waves -- Turbulence and Langmuir cells in the upper ocean -- Turbulence Below Wind Waves -- Reynolds Stresses -- Effects of the Rotation on the Entrainment by Grid-Generated Turbulence in Stratified Fluids -- Dynamics of Langmuir Circulations in a Stratified Ocean -- The Interaction of Crossed Waves and Wind-Induced Currents in a Laboratory Tank -- Numerical Modelling of Langmuir Circulation and Its Application -- Some Dynamic Features of Langmuir Circulation -- Mixed layer models for climate study -- Mixed Layer and Ekman Current Response to Solar Heating -- An Oceanic Mixed Layer Model Suitable for Climatological Studies Results over Several Years of Simulation -- Response of the Upper Ocean to Atmospheric Forcing -- Estimation of Solar Radiation at Sea -- Critical Examination of Various Estimation Methods of Long-Term Mean Air-Sea Heat and Momentum Transfer -- Mixed-Layer Growth in Stratified Fluids -- The Use and Testing of a Model for Upper Ocean Dynamics -- Vertical Mixing on the Bering Sea Shelf -- Surface Mixed Layer Observation Using a Meteo-Oceanographic Spar Buoy, XTGP and SEMVP System -- Detailed Structure of the Surface Layer in the Frontal Zone between the Kuroshio and Oyashio Water -- Horizontal Processes Involved in the Formation of Sea Surface Temperature Near a Western Boundary Current.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Toba, Yoshiaki. editor., Mitsuyasu, Hisashi. editor., SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	Texto biblioteca
Language:	eng
Published:	Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1985
Subjects:	Earth sciences., Oceanography., Atmospheric sciences., Earth Sciences., Atmospheric Sciences.,
Online Access:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7717-5
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