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In recent years, significant advances in both the theoretical and observational sides of physical oceanography have allowed the ocean's physical behavior to be described more quantitatively. This book discusses the physical mechanisms and processes of the sea, and will be valuable not only to o...
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Academic Press,
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| Publisher Address: | London ; Orlando : |
| Publication Dates: | 1988. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
International geophysics series,
v. 38 |
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| Online Access: |
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/bookseries/00746142/38 |
| Summary: |
In recent years, significant advances in both the theoretical and observational sides of physical oceanography have allowed the ocean's physical behavior to be described more quantitatively. This book discusses the physical mechanisms and processes of the sea, and will be valuable not only to oceanographers but also physicists, graduate students, and scientists working in dynamics or optics of the marine environment. |
| Item Description: | Errata sheet inserted. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xiii, 634 pages, [5] pages of plates) : illustrations (some color). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 603-605) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780080570747 0080570747 012058865X 9780120588657 |
| Index Number: | GC150 |
| CLC: | P733 |
| Contents: | Physical Oceanography -- Forcing Functions and Responses -- Hydrodynamic Equations of the Sea -- Thermodynamics and Energy Relations -- Geophysical Fluid Dynamics I -- Waves and Tides -- Geophysical Fluid Dynamics II -- Currents and Circulation -- Acoustical Oceanography -- Electromagnetics and the Sea -- Optics of the Sea -- Fundamental Physical Constants -- Astronomical and Geodetic Parameters -- Representative Values for Oceanic and Atmospheric Parameters -- Electrical Parameters -- Dimensionless Numbers for Fluids. |