SUBJECT INDEX
absorption of solar radiation, 7,
31, 32, 76, 106, 107, 108, 111,
112, 116, 122, 130, 221, 232,
237, 239, 242, 244, 258, 265,
266, 269, 276, 279, 281, 390,
461, 492, 500, See radiation
acoustic
Doppler current profiler, 204
estimate of rainfall rate, 474
inversion, 479
pulse propagation sensor, 467
rain estimation, 473
refraction, 472
sizing techniques, 464
acoustic classification of rainfall
types, 480
acoustic quantification of wind
speed, 474
acoustic sensor. See hydrophone
ageostrophic
fronts, 334
response, 309
air bubbles. See bubbles
air-sea gas exchange, 73, 86, 98,
99, 261, 395, 400, 414, 480,
481, 485, 491, 493, 495, 500
albedo of clouds, 410
albedo of sea surface, 26, 28, 29,
266
algae bloom, 282, 461
aqueous diffusion sublayer. See
diffusion sublayer
aqueous molecular sublayer. See
molecualr sublayers
aqueous
thermal
molecular
sublayer. See cool skin
aqueous viscous sublayer. See
viscous sublayer
arrested wedge, 336, 340, 341,
344
atmospheric diffusion sublayer,
73
atmospheric regulation of SST,
443
atmospheric sulfur cycle, 411
atmospheric thermal molecular
sublayer, 71
Barenblatt-Golitsyn theory, 203,
408, 429, 432, See dust storms
barrier layer, 63, 64, 65, 235, 281,
312, 316, 327, 347, 502
Benjamin-Ono equation, 368
billows, 215, 221, 248, 287, 344,
346, 349, 352, 354, 392, See
Kelvin-Helmholtz instability
biologically active layers, 457,
459
bore-like structure, 82, 344
boundary conditions
dynamic, 13, 43
free-surface, 43, 76
isolating, 268
kinematic, 43
boundary-layer approximation, 6,
41
boundary-layer separation, 436
Boussinesq approximation, 5,
297, 375, 376, 429
bow probes, 160, 227, See bowmounted sensors
bow sensors, 159, 225, 227, 257,
323, 342, 348, 359, See bowmounted sensors
bow turbulence records, 327
bow-mounted sensors, 314, 321,
347, 356, 490