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Recent Advances in the Study of Oceanic Whitecaps

Twixt Wind and Waves

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Editors:
  1. Penny Vlahos

    1. Department of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut, Groton, USA

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  2. Edward C. Monahan

    1. Department of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut, Groton, USA

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  • Offers a comprehensive understanding of all aspects of oceanic whitecaps
  • Includes contributions by front-line researchers on the topic of oceanic whitecaps
  • Provides relevant illustrations to advance the reader's understanding of the topic

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Penny Vlahos
    Pages 1-3

  3. Whitecap Parameterizations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5
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    2. Parameterising Whitecap Coverage Using Sea Surface Imagery

      • B. Scanlon, B. Ward, C. O’Dowd, S. G. Jennings
      Pages 7-24

    3. Estimates of Wave Breaking Energy Dissipation Rate from Measurements of Whitecap Coverage

      • Adrian H. Callaghan
      Pages 25-41

    4. 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)

      • Giles Hooker, Sophia E. Brumer, Christopher J. Zappa, Edward C. Monahan
      Pages 43-63

    5. Rain, Wave Breaking and Spray

      • Luigi Cavaleri
      Pages 65-75

    6. Measurements of Airside Shear- and Wave-Induced Viscous Stresses over Strongly Forced Wind Waves

      • Kianoosh Yousefi, Fabrice Veron, Marc P. Buckley
      Pages 77-94

  4. Whitecaps and Gas Transfer

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95
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    2. The Role of Physical Chemical Properties of Gases in Whitecap Facilitated Gas Transfer

      • Penny Vlahos, Edward C. Monahan
      Pages 97-106

    3. Studying the Role of Gas Bubbles on Air-Sea Gas Transfer Using Computer Models

      • Jun-Hong Liang
      Pages 107-120

    4. Sea Spray and Gas Transfer

      • A. Staniec, P. Vlahos, E. C. Monahan
      Pages 121-131

    5. What Controls Air-Sea Gas Exchange at Extreme Wind Speeds? Evidence from Laboratory Experiments

      • Bernd Jähne
      Pages 133-150

  5. Whitecaps and Remote Sensing

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151
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    2. Global Whitecap Coverage from Satellite Remote Sensing and Wave Modelling

      • Magdalena D. Anguelova
      Pages 153-174

    3. The Case for Measuring Whitecaps Using Ocean Color and Initial Linkages to Subsurface Physics

      • Alejandro Cifuentes-Lorenzen, Kaylan Randolph
      Pages 175-195

    4. Bright Oceans: Spectral Differentiation of Whitecaps, Sea Ice, Plastics, and Other Flotsam

      • Heidi M. Dierssen, Shungudzemwoyo P. Garaba
      Pages 197-208

  6. A Historical Perspective by E.C. Monahan

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 209-209
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    2. Twixt Wind and Waves: A First-Person Account of the Early Years of the Study of Oceanic Whitecaps

      • Edward C. Monahan
      Pages 211-290
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut, Groton, USA

    Penny Vlahos, Edward C. Monahan

About the editors

Dr. Penny Vlahos has dedicated her career to the transport of both natural and anthropogenic compounds in the environment. She has taught chemistry, chemical oceanography and climate change at the University of Connecticut for over 18 years. Vlahos is interested in the transport of dissolved gases at the ocean-atmosphere interface and how it influences global biogeochemical cycles. She is a member of the international Panel on Chemical Pollutants (IPCC), the United Nations pool of experts for the World Ocean Assessment Report, a Fulbright Specialist and a member of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. 


Dr. Edward C. Monahan has, during his 50-plus-year academic career, focused his research almost exclusively on the field and laboratory study of oceanic whitecaps and their roles in marine aerosol production and air-sea gas transfer. All of the four books he has edited, or co-edited, to date are devoted to these topics, including his first such effort, which he edited with G. MacNiocaill, Oceanic Whitecaps, and Their Role in Air-Sea Exchange Processes, and which appeared in 1986. He has taught Oceanography at such universities as the University of Michigan, University College, Galway (now the National University of Ireland, Galway), and the University of Connecticut.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Recent Advances in the Study of Oceanic Whitecaps

  • Book Subtitle: Twixt Wind and Waves

  • Editors: Penny Vlahos, Edward C. Monahan

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36371-0

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-36370-3Published: 18 April 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-36373-4Published: 18 April 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-36371-0Published: 17 April 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 290

  • Number of Illustrations: 42 b/w illustrations, 47 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Oceanography, Meteorology, Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry

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