Oceanic Whitecaps: And Their Role in Air-Sea Exchange Processes

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
The Life and Science of Alfred H. Woodcock....Pages 1-11
Scientific Papers of Dr. Alfred H. Woodcock....Pages 12-14
Wave Group Statistics....Pages 15-35
A Parameter Describing Overall Conditions of Wave Breaking, Whitecapping, Sea-Spray Production and Wind Stress....Pages 37-47
On Charnock’s Relation for the Roughness at Sea....Pages 49-56
Bubble Clouds: A Review of Their Detection by Sonar, of Related Models, and of how K v May be Determined....Pages 57-68
Bubble Populations: Background and Breaking Waves....Pages 69-73
On Reconciling Optical and Acoustical Bubble Spectra in the Mixed Layer....Pages 75-94
The Contribution of Bubbles to Gas Transfer Across an Air-Water Interface....Pages 95-100
Oceanic Air Bubbles as Generators of Marine Aerosols....Pages 101-112
Whitecaps, Bubbles, and Spray....Pages 113-124
Statistical Aspects of the Relationship Between Oceanic Whitecap Coverage Wind Speed and other Environmental Factors....Pages 125-128
Characteristic Features of a Wind Wave Field with Occasional Breaking, and Splashing Droplets at High Winds....Pages 129-145
Surface Tension Effects in Nonlinear Waves....Pages 147-158
The Effect of Organic Films on Water Surface Motions....Pages 159-165
A Model of Marine Aerosol Generation Via Whitecaps and Wave Disruption....Pages 167-174
The Production and Dispersal of Maritime Aerosol....Pages 175-193
Dynamics and Modeling of Aerosols in the Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer....Pages 195-208
Whitecaps and Global Fluxes....Pages 209-218
Comparisons Between Electrical Processes Occurring Over Land and Over Water....Pages 219-226
Atmospheric Electric Space Charge Near the Ocean Surface....Pages 227-243
Satellite Measurements of Aerosols Over Ocean Surfaces....Pages 245-250
Remote Sensing Signatures of Whitecaps....Pages 251-260
The Influence of Whitecaps on the Albedo of the Sea Surface....Pages 261-266
Front Matter....Pages 267-267
An Attempt to Determine the Space Charge Produced by a Single Whitecap Under Laboratory Conditions....Pages 267-267
Acoustic Propagation in Liquid Containing Gas-Bubbles: Effect of the Bubbles’ Size and Distribution....Pages 267-267
The Generation, Transport, and Deposition of Marine Aerosols: A Turbulence Modeling Study....Pages 267-268
Momentum Flux in Wind Waves....Pages 268-268
Further Experiments with a Laboratory Breaking Wave Model....Pages 268-269
Whitecaps, 10-m Windspeed and Marine Aerosol Interrelationships as Observed During the 1980 Strex Experiment....Pages 269-269
Aerosol Measurements at a Remote Coastal Site....Pages 269-269
Bubble Coalescence in Sea and Freshwater: Requisites for an Explanation....Pages 270-270
The Distribution of Aerosol Over Sea and Ice....Pages 270-270
The Complex Refractive Index of Marine Aerosol Constituents....Pages 270-271
Whitecap Coverage Measurements Using an Airborne Multi-Spectral Scanner....Pages 271-272
Oceanic Whitecaps: Their Effective Reflectance....Pages 272-274
Aerosol Populations in the Marine Atmosphere....Pages 274-275
The Influence of Fetch on Whitecap Coverage as Deduced from the Alte Weser Lightstation Observer’s Log....Pages 275-277
The Effect of Stability on the Concentration of Aerosol in the Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer....Pages 277-277
Sodium Chloride and Water Temperature Effects on Bubbles....Pages 278-278
Front Matter....Pages 267-267
Bubble Generation by Surface Wave Breaking....Pages 278-279
Bacterial Enrichments in the Aerosol from a Laboratory Breaking Wave....Pages 279-279
Back Matter....Pages 281-294