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Air-Ice-Ocean Interaction: Turbulent Ocean Boundary Layer Exchange Processes

By Miles McPhee

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
2010
ISBN
9781441926852, 1441926852
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
30 MB (31862764 bytes)
Edition
1st Edition.
Pages
218\218
Library
mexmat
Time added
2009-11-09 02:42:13
Науки о Земле;Метеорология и климатология;Физико-х

Description

At a time when the polar regions are undergoing rapid and unprecedented change, understanding exchanges of momentum, heat and salt at the ice-ocean interface is critical for realistically predicting the future state of sea ice. By offering a measurement platform largely unaffected by surface waves, drifting sea ice provides a unique laboratory for studying aspects of geophysical boundary layer flows that are extremely difficult to measure elsewhere. This book draws on both extensive observations and theoretical principles to develop a concise description of the impact of stress, rotation, and buoyancy on the turbulence scales that control exchanges between the atmosphere and underlying ocean when sea ice is present. Several interesting and unique observational data sets are used to illustrate different aspects of ice-ocean interaction ranging from the impact of salt on melting in the Greenland Sea marginal ice zone, to how nonlinearities in the equation of state for seawater affect mixing in the Weddell Sea.

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