Browsing University of Galway Theses (PhD Theses) by Author "Ward, Brian"

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    • 1912: Cultural expressions of Irishness in the periodical press 

      Ward, Brian (2015-05-29)
      This thesis analyses the cultural, social and political discourse in a range of Irish periodicals published during 1912. The Third Home Rule Bill was introduced to Parliament in 1912, and was intended to grant Ireland a ...

    • Lower-atmosphere upper-ocean interactions: the influences of breaking waves 

      Scanlon, Brian (2015-10-29)
      Wave breaking at the ocean surface is an important process for air-sea exchange. Whitecaps are visual sea surface signatures of breaking waves. By measuring the fractional coverage of whitecaps on the sea surface, it ...

    • Mixing and mixed layer depths in the ocean 

      Giunta, Valentina (NUI Galway, 2021-02-28)
      The ocean surface boundary layer (OSBL) is one of the largest global regulators of climate. There are two definitions associated with its depth: the mixed layer depth (MLD) and the mixing layer depth (XLD). The former is ...

    • Observational based evaluation of air-sea gas fluxes and turbulence in the surface ocean boundary layer 

      Esters, Leonie Tabea (NUI Galway, 2018-04-09)
      Turbulence within the ocean surface boundary layer (OSBL) is an important quantity for many processes as it mixes the ocean and transports various ocean quantities such as pollutants, heat, and dissolved gases. ...

    • Observations of turbulent dynamics in the ocean surface boundary layer 

      Sutherland, Graigory John (2014-03-26)
      Turbulence and mixing processes are investigated in the ocean surface boundary layer (OSBL) using microstructure measurements from the Air-Sea Interaction Profiler (ASIP) a vertically rising, autonomous instrument equipped ...

    • OpenFOAM computational fluid dynamics studies on the ocean-atmosphere 

      O'Sullivan, Niall (2015-09-05)
      Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is the use of applied mathematics, physics, and computational software to visualize how a fluid flows around objects. CFD is based on the Navier-Stokes equations, which describe how the ...

    • Ship Borne Direct Eddy Covariance Flux Measurements 

      Landwehr, Sebastian Johannes Heinz-Josef (2015-01-28)
      Ship borne direct eddy covariance flux measurements of momentum, heat (latent and sensible), and the trace gas CO2, were conducted during three open ocean experiments. The methods for data analysis and interpretation were ...

    • Upper ocean responses to solar heating and rain 

      ten Doeschate, Anneke M. M. (NUI Galway, 2018-07-20)
      This thesis presents observations made in the ocean surface boundary layer (OSBL), with the Air-Sea Interaction Profiler (ASIP), in conjunction with measurements of meteorological variables. These are used to establish ...