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Dynamics of the Oceanic Surface Mixed Layer. Proceedings of 'Aha Huliko'a Hawaiian Winter Workshop (4th) Held in Manoa, Hawaii on January 14-16, 1987,

Peter Müller, D. B. Henderson

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Abstract : Partial contents: Structures and fluxes in a deep convecting mixed layer; Equatorial turbulence--Mixed layer and thermocline; Zonal momentum balance at the equator; The mixed layer of the western equatorial Pacific Ocean; Observations of ocean waves and Langmuir circulation with Doppler sonars; Unsteady shallowing mixed layer; Some effects of heating on the wind-driven velocity in the upper ocean; Mixed-layer shear related to wind stress in the Central Equatorial Pacific; Mixed-layer fronts in the California Current; Horizontal Scales of Wind Forced Inertial Motions; Subduction; Wind forcing and observed oceanic wavenumber spectra; Energy and momentum fluxes through the sea surface; Hamiltonian description of the interaction of surface waves with mixed-layer currents; Radiative processes affecting ocean mixed-layer heat content and their monitoring from satellite; Monitoring ocean surface layer processes; Similarity theories and microturbulence in the atmospheric mixed layer; Global mixed-layer natural and anthropogenic fluxes.

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Abstract : Partial contents: Structures and fluxes in a deep convecting mixed layer; Equatorial turbulence--Mixed layer and thermocline; Zonal momentum balance at the equator; The mixed layer of the western equatorial Pacific Ocean; Observations of ocean waves and Langmuir circulation with Doppler sonars; Unsteady shallowing mixed layer; Some effects of heating on the wind-driven velocity in the upper ocean; Mixed-layer shear related to wind stress in the Central Equatorial Pacific; Mixed-layer fronts in the California Current; Horizontal Scales of Wind Forced Inertial Motions; Subduction; Wind forcing and observed oceanic wavenumber spectra; Energy and momentum fluxes through the sea surface; Hamiltonian description of the interaction of surface waves with mixed-layer currents; Radiative processes affecting ocean mixed-layer heat content and their monitoring from satellite; Monitoring ocean surface layer processes; Similarity theories and microturbulence in the atmospheric mixed layer; Global mixed-layer natural and anthropogenic fluxes.

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Abstract : Partial contents: Structures and fluxes in a deep convecting mixed layer; Equatorial turbulence--Mixed layer and thermocline; Zonal momentum balance at the equator; The mixed layer of the western equatorial Pacific Ocean; Observations of ocean waves and Langmuir circulation with Doppler sonars; Unsteady shallowing mixed layer; Some effects of heating on the wind-driven velocity in the upper ocean; Mixed-layer shear related to wind stress in the Central Equatorial Pacific; Mixed-layer fronts in the California Current; Horizontal Scales of Wind Forced Inertial Motions; Subduction; Wind forcing and observed oceanic wavenumber spectra; Energy and momentum fluxes through the sea surface; Hamiltonian description of the interaction of surface waves with mixed-layer currents; Radiative processes affecting ocean mixed-layer heat content and their monitoring from satellite; Monitoring ocean surface layer processes; Similarity theories and microturbulence in the atmospheric mixed layer; Global mixed-layer natural and anthropogenic fluxes.

Key concepts: Mixed layer, Thermocline, Geology, Ocean heat content, Ocean dynamics, Wind stress, Geostrophic wind, Stratification (seeds)

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