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.
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Significant advances in both the theoretical and observational sides of physical oceanography have allowed more quantitative descriptions of the physical behavior of the oceans to be derived. This book discusses he physical mechanisms and processes of the sea by first describing them and then accounting for them theoretically. Results from numerical models, laboratory experiments and remote measurements are also described but this text does not attempt to be exhaustive. Its aim is rather to present the fundamentals with what is hoped to be a balanced perspective.
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The study of the physics of the sea is the study of a broad range of classical and modern physics as applied to a complicated and pervasive medium covering much of the earth. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
overall vorticity balance, beam scattering coefficient, surface wave spectrum, inertial circle, wave height spectrum, relative dielectric function, vertical wave number, transport stream function, beam absorption coefficient, volume scattering function, ocean physics, diffuse attenuation coefficient, buoyancy oscillations, horizontal wave number, upwelling light, upward irradiance, net irradiance, planetary vorticity, surface setup, constant density surfaces, backscatter cross section, inertial oscillations, geostrophic velocity, surface wind stress, scalar irradiance Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Gulf Stream, Principles of Ocean Physics, New York, North Atlantic, Northern Hemisphere, Sargasso Sea, Academic Press, Southern Hemisphere, John Wiley, Johns Hopkins, Pergamon Press, Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics, Cambridge University Press, South America, Englewood Cliffs, Ocean Optics, Woods Hole, Aquatic Ecosystems, Fluid Mech, Optical Aspects of Oceanography, Strait of Gibraltar, Baltic Sea, Cape Hatteras, Coastal Zone Color Scanner, East West Longitude New!
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The study of the physics of the sea is the study of a broad range of classical and modern physics as applied to a complicated and pervasive medium covering much of the earth. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
overall vorticity balance, beam scattering coefficient, surface wave spectrum, inertial circle, wave height spectrum, relative dielectric function, vertical wave number, transport stream function, beam absorption coefficient, volume scattering function, ocean physics, diffuse attenuation coefficient, buoyancy oscillations, horizontal wave number, upwelling light, upward irradiance, net irradiance, planetary vorticity, surface setup, constant density surfaces, backscatter cross section, inertial oscillations, geostrophic velocity, surface wind stress, scalar irradiance Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Gulf Stream, Principles of Ocean Physics, New York, North Atlantic, Northern Hemisphere, Sargasso Sea, Academic Press, Southern Hemisphere, John Wiley, Johns Hopkins, Pergamon Press, Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics, Cambridge University Press, South America, Englewood Cliffs, Ocean Optics, Woods Hole, Aquatic Ecosystems, Fluid Mech, Optical Aspects of Oceanography, Strait of Gibraltar, Baltic Sea, Cape Hatteras, Coastal Zone Color Scanner, East West Longitude New!
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- Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics (International Geophysics Series, Volume 30) by Adrian E. Gill on 16 pages
- Marine Optics (Elsevier Oceanography Series) by N. G. Jerlov on 11 pages
- An introduction to physical oceanography (Addison-Wesley series in the earth sciences) by William S Von Arx on 9 pages
- Methods of Satellite Oceanography (Scripps Studies in Earth and Ocean Sciences, Vol 1) by Robert H. Stewart on 6 pages
- Physical Oceanography by Albert Defant on 6 pages
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- Measuring the Oceans from Space: The principles and methods of satellite oceanography (Springer Praxis Books / Geophysical Sciences) by Ian S. Robinson on page 556, and page 638
- GEOID and its Geophysical Interpretations by Mr. Petr Vanicek on page 328, and page 339
- Polar Oceanography, Part A: Physical Science by Walker O. Smith Jr. on page 166
- Environmental Magnetism, Volume 86: Principles and Applications of Enviromagnetics (International Geophysics) by Mark Evans MD FRCP in Back Matter
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