3.2. Physical Models of Oceanic Mixed Layer

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1.2. Operational Importance of Air-Sea Interaction to Navy

1.3. Examples of Atmospheric Effects on the Ocean

1.4. Examples of Oceanic Effects on the Atmosphere

1.5. Examples of Air-Sea Interaction

2. Fundamental Concepts in Turbulence

• 2.1. Instabilities
  • 2.1.1. Buoyancy Driven Instability
  • 2.1.2 Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability
• 2.2. Planetary Boundary Layer of Ocean and Atmosphere
• 2.3. Boussinesq Approximation
• 2.4. Properties of Turbulence
• 2.5. Spectrum of Turbulence
• 2.6. Continuous Time Average
• 2.7. Reynolds Equations
• 2.8. Reynolds Stress
• 2.9. Turbulent Kinetic Energy (TKE)
• 2.10. TKE equation
• 2.11. Mean Flow KE and PE Equations
• 2.12. Boundary Layer Assumptions
• 2.13. Scales of Turbulent Flow
• 2.14. Flux Richardson Number
• 2.15. Taylor Hypothesis

3. Ocean Mixed Layer Dynamics

• 3.1. Well Mixed Surface Layer
• 3.2. Physical Models of Oceanic Mixed Layer
• 3.3. TKE Equation in the Ocean Mixed Layer
• 3.4. Two Regimes in the Mixed Layer Dynamics
• 3.5. Obukhov Length Scale of the Ocean Mixed Layer
• 3.6. Analytical Solutions of the Ocean Mixed Layer Model
• 3.7. Thermodynamical Properties of Shallowing Regime
• 3.8. The Navy's Thermal Operational Prediction System (TOPS)

4. Atmospheric Surface Layer

• 4.1. Mixing Length Theory
• 4.2. Basic Equations for the Neutral Surface Layer
• 4.3. Computation of Mixing Length
• 4.4. Simplification of the Basic Equation
• 4.5. Estimation of Viscous Sublayer Thickness
• 4.6. Estimation of Roughness Length
• 4.7.Solution for Aerodynamically Rough Case (Neutral)
• 4.8.Solution for Aerodynamically Smooth Case (Neutral)
• 4.9. Eddy Viscosity
• 4.10. Nonneutral (Stratified) Surface Layer
• 4.11. Fluxes in the Atmospheric Surface Layer
• 4.12. Similarity Theory
• 4.13. Determination of Similarity Functions
• 4.14. Vertical Profiles in near Neutral Atmospheric Surface Layer

5. Estimation of Air-Sea Fluxes

• 5.1. Drag Coefficient
• 5.2. Heat and Moisture Exchange coefficients
• 5.3. Bulk Formulas for fluxes
  • 5.3.1. Momentum flux (wind stress)
  • 5.3.2. Sensible Heat Flux
  • 5.3.3. Latent Heat Flux
• 5.4. Fluxes Computed from Monin-Obukhov Theory

6. Recent Advances in Air-Sea Interaction Research

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Sorbjan, Z., 1989: Structure of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer. Prentice Hall, New Jersy.

Stull, R.B., 1989: An Introduction to Boundary Layer Meteorology.

Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston.

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