Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles
The Thermal State of the Ocean Surface
ORCID
0000-0001-6519-1547
Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Izvestiya, Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
ISSN
0001-4338
Publication Date
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.
Volume
17
Issue
10
First Page
788
Last Page
792
NSUWorks Citation
Vladimir N. Kudryavtsev and Alexander Soloviev. 1981. The Thermal State of the Ocean Surface .Izvestiya, Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics , (10) : 788 -792. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_facarticles/686.