Table of Contents

1 Historical Perspective.- 2 Theory of air-sea momentum, heat and gas fluxes.- 3 The leading edge of turbulence instrumentation.- 4 Dynamical coupling of surface waves with the atmosphere.- 5 Effect of surface gravity waves on near-surface atmospheric turbulence.- 6 The budget of turbulence kinetic energy in the marine atmospheric surface layer.- 7 The marine atmospheric boundary layer during swell, according to recent studies in the Baltic Sea.- 8 Flux measurements at the Noordwijk Platform.- 9 Exchange measurements above the air-sea interface using an aircraft.- 10 The coastal zone.- 11 Footprints of atmospheric phenomena in synthetic aperture radar image of the ocean surface: a review.- 12 The droplets produced by individual bubbles bursting on a sea water surface.- 13 Sea spray production and influece on air-sea heat and moisture fluxes over the open ocean.- 14 Modelling the interaction between the atmospheric boundary layer and evaporating sea spray droplets.- 15 Physical and chemical processes governing fluxes and flux divergence of gaseous ammonia and nitric acid in the marine atmospheric boundary layer.- 16 Engineering spectra over water.- 17 Identifying coherent structures in the marine atmospheric boundary layer.- 18 Turbulent fluxes and coherent structures in marine boundary layers: investigations by large-eddy simulation.- 19 Doppler sonar observations of Langmuir circulation.- 20 Future directions.

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The first book to introduce a multi-disciplinary approach to our understanding of air-sea interaction

Reviews

`I wholeheartedly recommend this book to all students and researchers of air-sea interaction. It is an up-to-date, honest evaluation of the status of the field at the end of the 1990s. ...it was a joy for me to read because of the many intelligent discussions and innovative explanations of complex phenomena. It is also a great foundation for new work... It should also be helpful for researchers evaluating remote sensing techniques to infer physical and dynamical phenomena.'
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 82:5 (2001)