Descriptive physical oceanography : an introduction

Author(s)

• Pickard, George L.
• Emery, William J.

Bibliographic Information

Descriptive physical oceanography : an introduction

by George L. Pickard and William J. Emery

Butterworth-Heinemann, 1995

5th enl. ed. (in SI units)

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-312) and index

Fifth edition 1990, reprinted 1995, 1996.

Description and Table of Contents

Description

'Descriptive Physical Oceanography: An Introduction' 5th edition provides an introduction to descriptive (synoptic) physical oceanography for science undergraduates and early graduate students. There has been an updating of topics such as the heat budget, instruments (particularly the use of satellites), a complete revision of the material on equatorial oceanography, sea-ice physics and distribution and El Nino and information has been added on thermohaline circulation, mixing nad coral reef oceanography.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Ocean dimensions, shapes and bottom materials
• Physical properties of sea-water
• Typical distributions of water characteristics in the oceans
• Water, salt and heat budgets of the oceans
• Instruments and methods
• Circulation and water masses of the oceans
• Coastal oceanography
• Some directions for future work
• Appendix
• Bibliography
• Index.

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Details

• NCID: BA38917215
• ISBN:
  • 075062759X
• LCCN: 90006814
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford
• Pages/Volumes: xv, 320 p., [5] p. of plates
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : GC150.5
  • DC20 : 551.46
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Oceanography