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Front Cover; Advances in Geophysics, Volume 10; Copyright Page; List of Contributors; Foreword; Contents; Chapter 1. Atlantic Air-Sea Interaction; 1. Introduction; 2. The Pure Wind Drift of the Water near the Ocean Surface; 3. The Geostrophic Ocean Currents; 4. The Oceanic Heat Budget; 5. The Local Heat Balance of the North Atlantic Ocean; 6. Correlation of Sea Temperature and Strength of the Westerlies between the Azores and Iceland; 7. Maps of Short Trends of Change of the North Atlantic Sea Surface Temperatures and the Related Change of the Atmospheric Circulation.
8. The Long Trend of Cooling North of 50°N from the 1890's to the Early 1920's9. The Trend of Warming after the Early 1920's, and Superimposed Short-Period Fluctuations; 10. Summarization of the Variations of Sea Temperature in the Belt of Westerlies; 11. The Chronology of Atlantic Temperature Variations between 30°N and 30°s; 12. The Trans-Equatorial Heat Exchange; 13. Atmospheric and Oceanic Temperature Anomalies Around 1800 A.D.; 14. The Role of the Atlantic for the Meridional Heat Flux in the Northern Hemisphere; 15. Conclusion; Acknowledgments; List of Symbols; References.
Chapter 2. The Optical Spectrum of Lightning1. Introduction; 2. Generation and Forms of Lightning; 3. Lightning Spectroscopy; 4. The Temperature of Lightning; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 3. Scattered Radiation in the Atmosphere and the Natural Aerosol; 1. Introduction; 2. The Aerosol; 3. Main Light Scattering Parameters and Basic Computations According to the Mie Theory; 4. Computations of Light Scattering Properties of a Unit Volume of Air for Various Model Aerosols; 5. Measured Light Scattering Properties of a Unit Volume of Air Compared to Computational Results.
6. Measurements and Calculations of Intensity and Polarization of Sky Radiation7. Conclusions; 8. Appendix to Section 3. Main Parameters of Scattered Radiation with Regard to Aerosol Size Distribution; Acknowledgments; List of Symbols; References; Chapter 4. Tensor Calculus in Atmospheric Mechanics; 1. Introduction; 2. World Tensors and Instantaneous Tensors; 3. Internal Kinematics of a Deformable Body; 4. Kinematics of a Motion; 5. The Atmosphere and Its Motion; 6. Balance Equations; 7. Averaging Processes; 8. Anholonomic Coordinates; 9. Special Coordinate Systems; List of Symbols.
edited by H.E. Landsberg, J. Van Mieghem.
Includes bibliographical references and index.