Articles | Volume 26, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-26-457-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-26-457-2019
Research article
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16 Dec 2019
Research article |  | 16 Dec 2019

On fluctuating momentum exchange in idealised models of air–sea interaction

Achim Wirth

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The conspicuous feature of the atmosphere–ocean system is the large difference in the masses of the two media. In this respect there is a strong analogy to Brownian motion, with light and fast molecules colliding with heavy and slow Brownian particles. I apply the tools of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics for studying Brownian motion to air–sea interaction.