Article
The Thermal State of the Ocean Surface
Izvestiya, Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
ORCID
0000-0001-6519-1547
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-1981
Abstract
A certain dimensionless parameter F that characterizes the thermal state of the surface is determined from analysis of the instability mechanisms of the viscous and molecular heat conduction layers under the free surface of the ocean, to which a momentum flux and a negative heat flux are applied. Free convection develops in the subsurface layer below the molecular heat conduction layer if F < 1, and forced convection if it is not. Data from vertical sounding of thermal structure in a thin surface layer of the ocean that were obtained with a surfacing sonde in the equatorial Atlantic Ocean on the 29th cruise of R/V Akademik Kurchatov (FGGE-79 international program) are interpreted on the basis of this analysis.
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Citation Information
Vladimir N. Kudryavtsev and Alexander Soloviev. "The Thermal State of the Ocean Surface" Izvestiya, Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics Vol. 17 Iss. 10 (1981) p. 788 - 792 ISSN: 0001-4338 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/alexander-soloviev/67/