Ocean Currents (eBook)

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1968 | 1. Auflage
351 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-0-08-087040-3 (ISBN)

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Ocean Currents

Inhalt

Front Cover 1
Ocean Currents 4
Copyright Page 5
CONTENTS 10
Preface 6
CHAPTER I. OBSERVATIONS AND METHODS OF CURRENT MEASUREMENTS 14
Variability of ocean currents and practical problems in measurement 14
Direct current measurements—Langrangian and Eulerian methods 22
Indirect methods of current measurements 47
CHAPTER II. PRESENTATION OF OCEAN CURRENTS AND WATER MASS TRANSPORTS 62
The use of current measurements 62
Singularities in a current field 68
Current charts 72
Major ocean currents 84
CHAPTER III. BASIC HYDRODYNAMICAL BACKGROUND 92
Pressure, density and geopotential 92
The equations of motion 99
The equation of continuity 114
Turbulence, mixing and diffusion 131
CHAPTER IV. MAJOR TYPES OF OCEAN CURRENTS 138
Geostrophic currents 138
Inertia currents 160
Circular motion and meandering currents 166
Currents including friction and diffusion 175
Wind-driven currents in a homogeneous ocean 189
Currents in a non-homogeneous ocean 208
CHAPTER V. THE GENERAL CIRCULATION OF THE OCEANS 238
Horizontal circulation of wind-driven ocean currents 238
Wind-driven and thermohaline circulations 272
Special current systems and current branches 282
REFERENCES 322
INDEX 348

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.1.1968
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geophysik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• ISBN-10: 0-08-087040-6 / 0080870406
• ISBN-13: 978-0-08-087040-3 / 9780080870403