Recent Advances in the Study of Oceanic Whitecaps

Twixt Wind and Waves

• Author(s): Penny Vlahos, Edward C. Monahan,
• Publisher: Springer Nature
• Pages: 290
• ISBN_10: 3030363716
  ISBN_13: 9783030363710
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Science / Earth Sciences / Oceanography , Science / Earth Sciences / Meteorology & Climatology , Technology & Engineering / Remote Sensing & Geographic Information Systems , Science / Earth Sciences / Geography ,

Description:... This book provides the reader with the a comprehensive summary of the recent advances in the study of whitecaps. It is the first major publication focusing specifically on whitecaps and their role in a variety of climate-relevant air-sea interaction processes since the publication, in 1986, of Oceanic Whitecaps, and Their Role in Air-Sea Exchange Processes, edited by Edward Charles Monahan and Gearoid Mac Niocaill (published by Springer). This book also provides the interested reader with a review of the initial work done on this topic in the second half of the 20th Century.