Air-Sea Interaction
Laws and Mechanisms

A comprehensive treatment of air-sea interaction for graduate students and researchers in meteorology, oceanography, environmental engineering, first published in 2001.

G. T. Csanady (Author), Mary Gibson (Illustrated by)

9780521792592, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 19 March 2001

248 pages, 116 b/w illus.
25.4 x 17.8 x 1.6 cm, 0.65 kg

"... [This book] provides a new and long-needed perspective on air-sea interaction ... Csanady provides an excellent synthesis of approaches and results." Oceanography

Air-Sea Interaction: Laws and Mechanisms, first published in 2001, provides a comprehensive account of how the atmosphere and the ocean interact to control the global climate, what physical laws govern this interaction, and its prominent mechanisms. In the early twenty-first century air-sea interaction emerged as a subject in its own right, encompassing small-scale and large-scale processes in both air and sea. By developing its subject from basic physical (thermodynamic) principles, the book is broadly accessible to a wide audience. It is mainly directed towards graduate students and research scientists in meteorology, oceanography, and environmental engineering. The book will be of value on entry level courses in meteorology and oceanography, and also to the broader physics community interested in the treatment of transfer laws, and thermodynamics of the atmosphere and ocean.

1. The transfer laws of the air-sea interface
2. Wind, waves and the mechanisms of air-sea transfer
3. Mixed layers in contact
4. Hot towers
5. The ocean's warm-water-sphere
References
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Subject Areas: Maths for engineers [TBJ], Meteorology & climatology [RBP], Oceanography [seas RBKC], Earth sciences [RB], Maths for scientists [PDE], Applied mathematics [PBW]