Atmosphere-Ocean Interaction

1: Basic Concepts 1.1: Notation 1.2: Conservation Equations 1.3: Turbulence and Turbulent Transport 1.4: Statistical Description of Fluctuating Quantities 1.5: Scaling Techniques and Similarity Relations 2: The State of Matter Near the Interface 2.1: Sea Water 2.2: Moist Air 2.3: The Liquid-Gas Interface 2.4: Bubbles and Spray 2.5: Sea Ice 3: Radiation 3.1: Definitions 3.2: Solar Radiation 3.3: Terrestrial Radiation 3.4: Empirical Formulas for Estimating the Surface Radiation Budget 4: Surface Wind Waves 4.1: Basic Dynamics of Harmonic Waves in Fluids 4.2: Small Amplitude Waves at the Air-Sea Interface 4.3: Second-Order Quantities and Approximations 4.4: Sources and Sinks of Surface Wave Energy 4.5: The Evolution and Parameterization of Surface Wave Spectra 5: Turbulent Transfer Near the Interface 5.1: The Structure of the Interface and Adjacent Layers 5.2: The Effect of Stratification 5.3: Dynamic Interactions Between Wind and Sea Surface 5.4: Transport of Trace Gases Across the Interface 5.5: The Sea Surface Temperature (SST) and the Energy Budget 5.6: Methods to Observe the Fluxes in the Atmospheric Surface Layer 6: The Planetary Boundary Layer 6.1: The Ekman Boundary Layer 6.2: Coherent Structures in the Planetary Boundary Layer 6.3: Parametric Representation of PBL Fluxes and Profiles 6.4: Mixed-Layer Models 7: Atmospherically-Forced Perturbations in the Oceans 7.1: Perturbations of a Shallow, Homogenous Ocean 7.2: The Two-Layer Ocean Model 7.3: Internal Inertio-Gravity Waves 7.4: The Response of the Open Ocean to Moving Cyclonic Storms 7.5: The Effect of Lateral Boundaries on Wind-Forced Perturbations 7.6: Rossby or Planetary Waves 7.7: Equatorial Currents and Perturbations 8: Large-Scale Forcing by Sea Surface Buoyancy Fluxes 8.1: The Predominant Direction and Variability of Air-Sea Interactions 8.2: Deep Convection 8.3: The Tropical Atmosphere 8.4: Some Low-Frequency Ocean-Atmosphere Feedback Processes