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1 online resource (580 pages) |
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Current Natural Sciences Ser |
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Current Natural Sciences Ser
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| Contents |
Cover ; Table of Contents; Prolog; Preface to the French Edition; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I. Generalities; 1. Ocean characteristics; 1.1 Spatial characteristics; 1.2 Physical characteristics of pure water; 1.3 Chemical and physical properties of seawater; 2. Heat and water exchanges between ocean and atmosphere; 2.1 Global radiation balance; 2.1.1 Incident solar radiation and albedo; 2.1.2 Absorption of incident radiation; 2.1.3 The greenhouse effect; 2.1.4 Long-wave (infrared) radiation; 2.1.5 Evaporation and conduction; 2.1.6 Radiative balance |
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2.2 Distribution of ocean-atmosphere heat fluxes2.2.1 Solar radiation; 2.2.2 Heat loss by infrared radiation; 2.2.3 Heat loss by evaporation; 2.2.4 Heat loss by conduction; 2.2.5 Net heat flux; 2.3 Atmosphere and ocean heat transport; 2.4 Ocean surface temperature; 2.5 Water fluxes; 2.5.1 Evaporation and precipitation; 2.5.2 Water flux balance; 2.6 Surface salinity; 2.7 Surface density; 2.8 Heat and salt transfers to the ocean interior. The thermocline; 3. Water masses; 3.1 General properties of water masses; 3.2 Mode Waters, Central Waters, and Intermediate Waters |
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3.3 Bottom Waters and Deep Waters3.4 Analysis of water characteristics; 3.4.1 Potential temperature and potential density; 3.4.2 Potential temperature-salinity diagram; 3.4.3 Tracers; 4. Ocean circulation; 4.1 Laws controlling oceanic motion; 4.2 The effect of Earth rotation on motion; the Coriolis force; 4.3 Geostrophy: the principal balance of forces in the ocean; 4.4 The dynamic method; 4.5 Dynamic topography; 4.6 Thermohaline circulation; 5. The role of wind; 5.1 Oceanic and atmospheric surface circulation; 5.2 Local wind effects: Ekman transport |
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5.2.1 Wind acting near a coastline: coastal upwelling5.2.2 Wind at the equator: equatorial upwelling, Equatorial Undercurrent; 5.3 Large-scale wind effects; 5.3.1 Ekman pumping; 5.3.2 Sverdrup balance; 5.3.3 Western intensification of ocean currents; 5.3.4 Conservation of potential vorticity; 6. Observational techniques; 6.1 Temperature and salinity measurements; 6.1.1 Reversing thermometers; 6.1.2 Bathythermograph; 6.1.3 Expendable bathythermograph, or XBT; 6.1.4 Salinometer; 6.1.5 Thermosalinograph; 6.2 The hydrographic station and its measurements |
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6.2.1 Knudsen, Nansen, and Niskin sample bottles6.2.2 CTD probe and rosette; 6.3 Direct current measurements; 6.3.1 Current meters; 6.3.2 Acoustic Doppler current profilers; 6.3.3 Moored current meters; 6.3.4 Surface-moored buoy; 6.4 Drifting buoys, floats, profilers, gliders; 6.4.1 Drifting buoys; 6.4.2 Swallow floats and SOFAR floats; 6.4.3 Profiling floats; 6.4.4 Gliders; 6.4.5 Animal-borne instruments: How elephant seals can help exploring the ocean; 6.5 Satellite measurements; II. The Antarctic (or Austral) Ocean; 1. Introduction; 2. Geographic characteristics |
| Summary |
Annotation The description of ocean water masses is based on the study of their temperature, salinity, and density, virtual genetic imprints which provide identity and movement to water masses. Ocean characteristics and processes involved in exchanges with the atmosphere together with simple dynamic balances give an understanding of a large part of the vast oceanic system. This book is enhanced with numerous colored illustrations. It is a reference on regional oceanography updated with extensive results from the last twenty years. The presentation underscores the specificity of each ocean basin using a precise and global approach. Beginning with a brief historical context, it explains the interactions and the role of each ocean basin in the functioning of the planetary ocean. How do we recognize Antarctic Bottom Water in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean? What is the densest water mass? The warmest? Why doesn't dense water form in the largest ocean basin? What becomes of water that sinks in the Labrador Sea? Why does the ocean play such an important role in climate variations? ... Answers can be found in this book. Beyond a course in regional oceanography, the text is aimed at students in all fields of marine and environmental science as well as interested secondary school teachers. It also provides a guide to exploring the "ocean planet" that is comprehensible to any well-informed amateur eager to know the basics |
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3. Atmospheric pressure and winds |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Oceanography.
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Ocean.
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Oceanography
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oceanography.
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oceans (marine bodies of water)
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SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geography.
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SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geology.
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Ocean
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Oceanography
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9782759821501 |
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2759821501 |
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275982070X |
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9782759820702 |
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