Recent Advances in the Study of Oceanic Whitecaps
Twixt Wind and Waves
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The role of sea spray in atmosphere–ocean gas exchange
Sea spray facilitates the movement of matter and energy between the ocean and the atmosphere. While many of its contributions to heat and momentum transfer are relatively well understood, the contribution to c...
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The Role of Physical Chemical Properties of Gases in Whitecap Facilitated Gas Transfer
Air-sea gas exchange is one of the most important processes that controls both biogeochemical cycles and the earth’s climate. The need to accurately quantifying gas exchange under the range of temperatures, wi...
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Inferences to Be Drawn from a Consideration of Power-Law Descriptions of Multiple Data Sets Each Comprised of Whitecap Coverage, WB, and 10-m Elevation Wind Speed Measurements (U10)
Using an aggregate of 17 whitecap data sets collected over the past 50 years, it has been possible to confirm that the exponent, n, in the traditional simple power-law expression used to express the dependence...
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Twixt Wind and Waves: A First-Person Account of the Early Years of the Study of Oceanic Whitecaps
While describing my own field and laboratory research on oceanic, and fresh-water, whitecaps, I have tried to provide in this chapter a global over-view touching on the work that many of the other researchers ...
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The spray contribution to net evaporation from the sea: A review of recent progress
The part that sea spray plays in the air-sea transfer of heat and moisture has been a controversial question for the last two decades. With general circulation models (GCMs) suggesting that perturbations in th...
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Occurrence and Evolution of Acoustically Relevant Sub-Surface Bubble Plumes and their Associated, Remotely Monitorable, Surface Whitecaps
A detailed description of the temporal evolution of a bubble plume, beginning with its genesis in a spilling wave, is essayed, and the early stages of its development are identified with the Stage A and Stage ...
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Whitecap Coverage as a Remotely Monitorable Indication of the Rate of Bobbie Injection into the Oceanic Mixed Layer
The observed cubic dependence on friction velocity of near-surface bubble concentration is independently deduced from a simple geometrical model for the whitecap bubble plume. This exponential plume model like...
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Scientific Papers of Dr. Alfred H. Woodcock
The 76 papers of Alfred H. Woodcock (as of March, 1985) can be loosely divided into five categories. In the first we find the 14 papers on the observations of animals and plants that revealed organized motion ...
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The Ocean as a Source for Atmospheric Particles
Recognizing that descriptions of the physical mechanisms whereby sea-salt particles are introduced into the atmosphere have been treated in some detail by Blanchard (1983) in an earlier publication in this ser...
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The Role of Oceanic Whitecaps in Air-Sea Gas Exchange
The currently available oceanic piston velocities, based on radon profiles, and the Galway climatological atlas of world ocean whitecap coverage, have been combined to demonstrate that a statistically signific...
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Improved Statement of the Relationship Between Surface Wind Speed and Oceanic Whitecap Coverage as Required for the Interpretation of Satellite Data
The effect of whitecap coverage on the apparent microwave brightness temperature of the sea, which varies with radiometer wavelength, polarization, and viewing angle (Webster et al, 1976), will be made use of ...
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Colour, ultraviolet absorbance and salinity of the surface waters off the west coast of Ireland
INTEREST in the relationship between the colour of seawater and various other surface properties of seawater has increased in anticipation of the launch of the Coastal Zone Colour Scanner, a multispectral inst...
