THE NEAR-SURFACE LAYER OF THE OCEAN
568
ocean color, 28, 31, 314, 439,
440, 447, 449, 450, 451, 452,
453, 454
optical properties
apparent, 30, 450, 452
inherent, 30, 31, 450, 451, 452
organic films, 68, 371, 453, 456
organic substances, 30, 31, 451
Ostwald solubility coefficient,
485
overturning events, 240, 248, 272,
See billows
ozone, 22, 24, 33, 441
PAR. See
photosynthetically
available radiaition
parameterization of the crossfrontal exchange, 344
passive tracer, 297
penetrative
convection.
See
convection
photochemical reactions, 19, 67,
85, 456
photosynthesis, 30
photosynthetically
available
radiation, 21
phytoplankton, 33, 63, 74, 86,
282, 449, 451, 452, 456, 457,
460, 461
phytoplankton bloom, 76, 284
Pierson-Moskowitz spectrum, 51,
189
piston velocity. See gas transfer
velocity
planetary boundary layer, 54, 55,
59, 62, 295
polar seas, 265, 281, 282, 346,
502
potential temperature, 7, 59, 267
virtual, 16
precipitation effects, 320
pressure-to-depth
conversion,
163, 226, 231, 349
Price-Weller-Pinkel model, 278
PWP, 117, 118, 119, 138, 278,
299, See Price-Weller-Pinkel
model
radar scatterometer, 440
radiance, 20
spectral, 21
radiation
longwave, 19
shortwave, 21
solar, 7, 21
rain induced buoyancy flux, 302
rain radar, 446
raindrop size distribution, 475,
See Marshall-Palmer raindrop
size distribution
rain-formed
halocline, 2, 116, 213, 227,
287, 346, 354, 460, 489
mixed layer, 226
near-surface jet, 246
rain-generated sound, 476
rain-induced roughness, 134
rain-induced wind stress, 11
ramp-like structures, 2, 144, 147,
215, 287, 344, 354, 356, 357,
359, 361, 363, 364, 368, 369
ramps, 287, 354, 356, 359, See
ramp-like structures
rapid flow distortion, 160, 168,
169
Rayleigh number, 9, 79, 105, 130,
387
re-entrant spray, 427, 432
reflectance, 24, 25, 28, 371, 444,
449
remote-sensing, 450, 459
regime of marginal stability. See
marginal stability
renewal model, 88, 91, 119, 137,
138, 139, 140, 388, 482, 483,
484, 485, 489, 495