The Near-Surface Layer of the Ocean

Structure, Dynamics and Applications

Alexander Soloviev, Roger Lukas (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

574 Seiten

2010 | Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2006
Springer (Verlag)
9789048170258 (ISBN)

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Until the 1980s, a tacit agreement among many physical oceanographers was that nothing deserving attention could be found in the upper few meters of the ocean. The lack of adequete knowledge about the near-surface layer of the ocean was mainly due to the fact that the widely used oceanographic instruments (such as bathythermographs, CTDs, current meters, etc.) were practically useless in the upper few meters of the ocean. Interest in the ne- surface layer of the ocean rapidly increased along with the development of remote sensing techniques. The interpretation of ocean surface signals sensed from satellites demanded thorough knowledge of upper ocean processes and their connection to the ocean interior. Despite its accessibility to the investigator, the near-surface layer of the ocean is not a simple subject of experimental study. Random, sometimes huge, vertical motions of the ocean surface due to surface waves are a serious complication for collecting quality data close to the ocean surface. The supposedly minor problem of avoiding disturbances from ships’ wakes has frustrated several generations of oceanographers attempting to take reliable data from the upper few meters of the ocean. Important practical applications nevertheless demanded action, and as a result several pioneering works in the 1970s and 1980s laid the foundation for the new subject of oceanography – the near-surface layer of the ocean.

Dr. Alexander Soloviev is an Associate Professor at the NOVA Southeastern University’s Oceanographic Center, Dania Beach, Florida. He also worked as a research scientist in the two leading research institutions of the former Soviet Academy of Sciences: P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology and A.M. Oboukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics. Dr. Roger Lukas is a Professor in the Department of Oceanography at the University of Hawaii, in Honolulu, Hawaii. He was one of the two principal organizers of a major international air-sea interaction experiment (TOGA/COARE) conducted during 1992-94 in the western equatorial Pacific.

SEA SURFACE MICROLAYER.- NEAR-SURFACE TURBULENCE.- FINE STRUCTURE AND MICROSTRUCTURE.- SPATIALLY-VARYING AND COHERENT STRUCTURES.- HIGH WIND SPEED REGIME.- APPLICATIONS.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	25.11.2010
Reihe/Serie	Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences Library ; 31
Zusatzinfo	XV, 574 p.
Verlagsort	Dordrecht
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 240 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Hydrologie / Ozeanografie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Meteorologie / Klimatologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Mechanik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Thermodynamik
ISBN-13	9789048170258 / 9789048170258
Zustand	Neuware