Principles of ocean physics /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Academic,
1987
London ; Orlando : Academic Press, 1987 London ; Orlando : 1987 London ; Orlando : 1987 London ; Orlando : 1987 |
| Series: | International geophysics series ;
v. 38 International geophysics series v. 38 International geophysics series, v. 38 International geophysics series ; v. 38 International geophysics series v. 38 International geophysics series v. 38 International geophysics series v. 48 International geophysics series, v. 38 |
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Table of Contents:
- GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS II CURRENTS AND CIRCULAITON: Surface wind stress and Ekman layer dynamics
- Inertial oscillations
- Vorticity: relative, planetary, absolute, and potential
- Sverdrup transport
- Western boundary currents and geostrophic flow
- Vorticity balance in a wester boundary current
- Meanderings and other mesocale motions
- Quasi-geostrophic motion and Rossby waves
- Equatorial waves and El Nino
- Large-Scale circulation
- ACOUSTICAL OCEANOGRAPHY: Characteristics of sound in the sea
- The acoustic wave equation
- The speed of sound
- Mechanical properties of acoustic waves
- A simple solution to the wave equation
- Ray tracing and the eikonal equation
- Propagation loss
- Reflection and scattering from ocean surfaces
- Reflection, refraction, and scattering at the sea floor
- Reflection and scattering by bodies in the water column
- Acoustics and geophysical fluid dynamics
- Underwater noise
- ELECTROMAGENTICS AND THE SEA: Mazwell's equations and constitutive relations
- Dielectric function and electrical conductivity
- Reflection at a plane surface
- The radar equation for a distributed surface
- Scattering of electromagnetic radiation
- Radar scatter and geophysical fluid dynamics
- Synthetic and real aperture imaging radars
- The wave action equation
- Emission from the sea surface
- Induced EMF's and currents
- OPTICS OF THE SEA: Optical fields and parameters
- Surface illumination: sun, sky, and artificial
- Surface interactions: reflections, scattering, and refraction
- Subsurface interactions: Pure seawater
- Subsurface interactions: particles, plankton, and Gelbstoffe
- Fluorescence and bioluminescence
- Radiative transfer beneath the sea
- Ocean color; underwater imaging
- Remote sensing of optical parameters
- Optics and geophysical fluid dynamics
- PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY AN OVERVIEW: The evolution of modern physical oceanography
- FORCE FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSES: Forcing functions on and in the sea
- Gravitational and rotational forces
- Radiative, thermodynamic, and related forces
- Zonal and meridional variations
- Wind stress
- The general circulation of the ocean
- The wind-driven oceanic circulation
- Pressure forcing
- The thermohaline circulation
- The sea floor and its dynamics
- HYDRODYNAMIC EQUATIONS OF THE SEA: The convective derivative and the momentum equation
- Gravitational forces
- Effects of spin
- The Coriolis force
- More gravity
- Tidal forces
- Total potential caused by gravity and rotation
- Internal forces in a viscous fluid
- Conservation equations for mass and salinity
- The momentum equation
- Fluctuations, Reynolds stresses, and eddy coefficients
- Boundary conditions in fluid dynamics
- THERMODYNAMICS AND ENERGY RELATIONS: Molecular structure of H2O
- Effects of temperature, salinity, and pressure
- Thermodynamics of seawater
- Additional thermodynamic equations
- Heat conduction equation
- Specific volume and salinity equations
- Equation of state
- Combined hydrodynamics and thermodynamics
- Energy flow and energy equations
- Total energy equations
- GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS I WAVES AND TIDES: Quasi-steady motions
- Buoyancy and stability
- Surface waves
- Linear capillary and gravity waves
- Dispersion characteristics of surface waves
- Surface gravity waves
- Surface capillary waves
- Surface wave vorticity
- The stream function
- Energy flow in surface waves
- Statistical descriptions of surface gravity waves
- Long-wave, shallow water equations
- Tsunami and seismic sea waves
- Deep sea and coastal tides
- Internal wave dynamics
- The two-layers fluid
- Kelvin-Helmholtz instability