Author: Samuel PennypackerPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
What Can We Learn from the Cleanest Marine Boundary Layers? Insights from the North Atlantic
Author: Samuel PennypackerThe Structure of the Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer
Author: Sylvain M. JoffrePublisher:
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Category : Boundary layer (Meteorology)
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Aerosol Characteristics of the Marine Boundary Layer of the North Atlantic and Mediterranean During May - June 1977
Author: E. J. MackPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
During May and early June 1977, Calspan participated in a Transatlantic-Mediterranean research expedition (NRL Cruise 77-16-04) aboard the USNS HAYES to investigate atmospheric marine boundary layer phenomena. Calspan's objective was the acquisition of data describing the magnitudes and spatial variations of a variety of aerosol and meteorological parameters in the lowest 20 m. Continuous or hourly observations of visibility, scattering coefficient, total particle concentration, aerosol size spectra (0.01 to>3.0 micrometers diameter), relative humidity, air and sea surface temperatures, and winds were obtained throughout the cruise. At less regular intervals, measurements of cloud condensation nuclei and aqueous sea spray aerosols and collections of aerosols for chemical analyses were also obtained. These data were used to describe differences between the clean marine air of the mid-Atlantic and the modified-continental air of the Mediterranean observed during the cruise and data previously acquired in the Eastern Pacific. In addition, complete aerosol spectra (0.01 micrometers to>20.0 micrometers diameter) were utilized to compute extinction as functions index of refraction, wavelength and changes in relative humidity. (Author).
The Floors of the Oceans, V1
Author: Bruce C. HeezenPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258423650
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Text To Accompany The Physiographic Diagram Of The North Atlantic. The Geological Society Of America Special Paper, No. 65.
The Northern North Atlantic
Author: Priska SchäferPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642568769
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
The northern North Atlantic is one of the regions most sensitive to past and present global changes. This book integrates the results of an interdisciplinary project studying the properties of the Greenland-Iceland-Norwegian Seas and the processes of pelagic and benthic particle formation, particle transport, and deposition in the deep-sea sediments. Ice-related and biogeochemical processes have been investigated to decipher the spatial and temporal variability of the production and fate of organic carbon in this region. Isotopic stratigraphy, microfossil assemblages and paleotemperatures are combined to reconstruct paleoceanographic conditions and to model past climatic changes in the Late Quaternary. The Greenland-Iceland-Norwegian Seas can now be considered one of the best studied subbasins of the world`s oceans.
A Study of the Benthic Boundary Layer Associated with the Cold Filament of the Western North Atlantic
Author: Tal EzerPublisher:
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Category : Boundary layer
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
50 Earth Ideas You Really Need to Know
Author: Martin RedfernPublisher: Quercus
ISBN: 1623651964
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
This latest book in Quercus's bestselling "50 Ideas" series is a wonderfully accessible overview of the only place we know of in the universe that is capable of sustaining life. Expert popular science writer Martin Redfern covers all the natural processes of the Earth: climate, ocean currents, air currents, the elements, plate tectonics, fossils, the evolution of life, volcanology, sea levels and the ultimate fate of the Earth.
The Atmospheric Boundary Layer
Author: J. R. GarrattPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521467452
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The book gives a comprehensive and lucid account of the science of the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL). There is an emphasis on the application of the ABL to numerical modelling of the climate. The book comprises nine chapters, several appendices (data tables, information sources, physical constants) and an extensive reference list. Chapter 1 serves as an introduction, with chapters 2 and 3 dealing with the development of mean and turbulence equations, and the many scaling laws and theories that are the cornerstone of any serious ABL treatment. Modelling of the ABL is crucially dependent for its realism on the surface boundary conditions, and chapters 4 and 5 deal with aerodynamic and energy considerations, with attention to both dry and wet land surfaces and sea. The structure of the clear-sky, thermally stratified ABL is treated in chapter 6, including the convective and stable cases over homogeneous land, the marine ABL and the internal boundary layer at the coastline. Chapter 7 then extends the discussion to the cloudy ABL. This is seen as particularly relevant, since the extensive stratocumulus regions over the subtropical oceans and stratus regions over the Arctic are now identified as key players in the climate system. Finally, chapters 8 and 9 bring much of the book's material together in a discussion of appropriate ABL and surface parameterization schemes in general circulation models of the atmosphere that are being used for climate simulation.
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