عنوان

Regional oceanography :

(Number (ISBN

0080410200 (flexicover)

(Number (ISBN

0080410219 (hardcover)

(Number (ISBN

9780080410203 (flexicover)

(Number (ISBN

9780080410210 (hardcover)

Number

b535306

Title Proper

Regional oceanography :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

an introduction /

First Statement of Responsibility

Matthias Tomczak and J. Stuart Godfrey.

Edition Statement

1st ed.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Pergamon,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1994.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

vii, 422 p., [4] p. of plates :

Other Physical Details

ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ;

Dimensions

26 cm.

Text of Note

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

Text of Note

1. Introduction: What drives the ocean currents? -- 2. Temperature, salinity, density and the oceanic pressure field -- 3. The Coriolis force, geostrophy, Rossby waves and the westward intensification -- 4. Ekman layer transports, Ekman pumping and the Sverdrup balance -- 5. Water mass formation, subduction and the oceanic heat budget -- 6. Antarctic oceanography -- 7. Arctic oceanography; the path of North Atlantic Deep Water -- 8. The Pacific Ocean -- 9. Hydrology of the Pacific Ocean -- lO. Adjacent seas of the Pacific Ocean -- 11. The Indian Ocean -- 12. Hydrology of the Indian Ocean -- 13. Adjacent seas of the Indian Ocean and the Australasian Mediterranean Sea (the Indonesian throughflow) -- 14. The Atlantic Ocean -- 15. Hydrology of the Atlantic Ocean -- 16. Adjacent seas of the Atlantic Ocean -- 17. Aspects of advanced regional oceanography -- 18. The oceans and the world's mean climate -- 19. El Nino and the Southern Oscillation (ENSO) -- 20. The ocean and climate change.

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Title

Regional oceanography.

Oceanography.

M400

Class number

Book number

Tomczak, M.,1941-

Godfrey, J. Stuart.

Date of Transaction

20140214090743.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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