Regional oceanography : an introduction

著者

• Tomczak, M.
• Godfrey, J. Stuart

書誌事項

Regional oceanography : an introduction

Matthias Tomczak and J. Stuart Godfrey

Pergamon, 1994

• Flexicover

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. 397-409) and index

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

Flexicover ISBN 9780080410203

内容説明

This text covers the traditional range of topics in regional oceanography. An important aspect of work is its novel approach to a description of the features which give each ocean region its character. The two core principles are the use of the most modern database for all maps of regional distributions of properties and a discussion of all observed features within a frame of reference developed from ocean dynamics, rather than based on the simple geographical approach. The ocean's role in climate variability and climate change is described in detail. The book also includes an evaluation of all major international research projects such as FGGE, IIOE and TOGA. The SI system is used throughout. The use of modern data and inclusion of the oceanographic literature up to 1992 and early 1993 make it a useful reference text.

目次

• Introduction - what drives the ocean currents?
• temperature, salinity, density and the oceanic pressure field
• the Coriolis force, geostrophy, Rossby waves and the westward intensification
• Ekman layer transports, Ekman pumping and the Sverdrup balance
• water mass formation, subduction and the oceanic heat budget
• Antarctic oceanography
• Arctic oceanography - the path of North Atlantic Deep Water
• the Pacific Ocean
• hydrology of the Pacific Ocean
• adjacent seas of the Pacific
• the Indian Ocean
• hydrology of the Indian Ocean
• adjacent seas of Indian Ocean and the Australasian Mediterranean Sea (the Indonesian throughflow)
• the Atlantic Ocean
• hydrology of the Atlantic Ocean
• adjacent seas of the Atlantic Ocean
• aspects of advanced regional oceanography
• the oceans of the world's mean climate
• El Nino and the Southern Oscillation (ENSO)
• the ocean and climate change.

巻冊次

ISBN 9780080410210

内容説明

This text covers the traditional range of topics in regional oceanography. The work uses a modern database for all maps of regional distribution and contains a discussion of observed features within a frame of reference developed from ocean dyanamics, rather than based on the simple geographical approach. The ocean's role in climate variability and climate change is described in detail. The book also includes an evaluation of all major international research projects such as FGGE, IIOE and TOGA. The SI system is used throughout. The use of modern data and inclusion of the oceanographic literature up to 1992 and early 1993 should make it a useful reference text.

目次

• Introduction - what drives the ocean currents?
• temperature, salinity, density and the oceanic pressure field
• the Coriolis force, geostropy, Rossby waves and the westwood intensification
• Ekman layer transports, Ekman pumping and the Sverdrup balance
• water mass formation, subduction and the oceanic heat budget
• Antarctic oceanography
• Arctic oceanography -the path of North Atlantic Deep Water
• the Pacific Ocean
• hydrology of the Pacific Ocean
• adjacent seas of the Pacific Ocean
• the Indian Ocean
• hydrology of the Indian Ocean
• adjacent seas of the Indian Ocean and the Australasian Mediterranean Sea
• the Atlantic Ocean
• hydrology of the Atlantic Ocean
• aspects of advanced regional oceanography
• the oceans and the world's mean climate
• El Nino and the Southern oscillation (ENSO)
• the ocean and climate change.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA22356913
• ISBN:
  • 0080410219
  • 0080410200
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Oxford, England ; New York
• ページ数/冊数: vii, 422 p.
• 大きさ: 26 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : GC11.2
  • DC20 : 551.46
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Oceanography