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Descriptive Physical Oceanography

by: Talley

Descriptive Physical Oceanography

by: Talley

ISBN 13:
9780750627597
ISBN 10:
075062759X
Edition: 5th
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 01/01/1990
Publisher: Elsevier Science
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'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.

Introduction

(5)

Ocean Dimensions, Shapes and Bottom Materials

(7)

Dimensions

(2)

Sea-floor dimensions

(3)

Scales

(1)

Shore

(1)

Continental shelf

Continental slope and rise

(4)

Deep-sea bottom and sounding

(1)

Sills

(1)

Bottom material

(2)

Physical Properties of Sea-Water

(22)

Vocabulary

(1)

Properties of pure water

(1)

Temperature

(1)

Salinity and conductivity

(4)

Density

(6)

Units for density

(1)

Effects of temperature and salinity on density

(2)

Effect of pressure on density and temperature

(1)

Specific volume and anomaly

(1)

Tables and formulae for density and specific volume anomaly

(2)

Other characteristic properties

(1)

Sound in the sea

(7)

Light in the sea

(2)

Colour of sea-water

(2)

Typical Distributions of Water Characteristics in the Oceans

(30)

Introduction

(3)

General

(1)

Collection and analysis of data

(2)

General statistics and area descriptions

(1)

Temperature distribution

(12)

Surface temperature

(3)

Upper layers and the thermocline

(2)

Langmuir circulations

(2)

Temporal variations of temperature in the upper layer

(3)

Deep water: potential temperature

(2)

Salinity distribution

(4)

Surface salinity

(2)

Upper-layer salinity

(1)

Deep-water salinity

(1)

Temporal variations of salinity

(1)

Density distribution

(4)

Density at the surface

(1)

Subsurface density and the pycnocline

(1)

Static stability

(2)

Geographic distribution of density

(1)

Dissolved oxygen distribution

(2)

Other water-motion tracers

(3)

Introduction

(1)

Nutrients

(3)

Transparency of the upper ocean from Secchi disc measurements

(2)

Water, Salt and I-heat Budgets of the Oceans

(28)

Conservation of volume

(1)

Conservation of salt

(3)

Principle

(2)

Two examples of applications of the two conservation principles

(1)

The Mediterranean Sea

(1)

The Black Sea

(1)

Conservation of Heat Energy, the heat Budget

(24)

Heat-budget terms

(2)

Short- and long-wave radiation: elements of radiation theory

(1)

Short-wave radiation (Qs)

(1)

Incoming solar radiation

(1)

Effects of atmospheric absorption, solar elevation, clouds, etc.

(3)

Spatial and temporal variations

(1)

Long-wave radiation (Qb)

(1)

Determining factors

(1)

Temporal and spatial variations

(1)

Effect of clouds

(1)

Effect if ice and snow cover

(1)

Evaporation (Qe)

(3)

Heat conduction (Qb)

(1)

Eddy conduction

(1)

Convection

(1)

Bowen's Ratio

(2)

Some comments on the calculation of the heat budget terms

(1)

Geographic distribution of the heat-budget terms

(1)

Pacific Ocean

(3)

Atlantic Ocean

(1)

World ocean; northern hemisphere

(1)

Large-scale programme on the heat budget

(3)

Instruments and Methods

Introduction

(2)

Instruments

(33)

Winches, wire, etc.

(1)

Depth measurement

(1)

Water properties

(1)

Water-sampling battles

(1)

Temperature measurement

(2)

Salinity measurement

(3)

Density measurement

101

(1)

Expendable instrument

102

(1)

Current measurement

102

(1)

Lagrangian methods

103

(4)

Eulerian methods; drag and propeller type meters

107

(3)

Eulerian methods: non-propeller-type meters

110

(2)

Mooring current meters and other instruments

112

(3)

Geostrophic method and dynamic topography

115

(8)

Acoustic tomography

123

(1)

Radiation measurement

124

(3)

Platforms

127

(10)

Sea- and airborne

127

(2)

Satellites

129

(1)

Satellite remote sensing

129

(1)

Weather satellites

129

(3)

The Coastal Zone Colour Scanner

132

(1)

SEASAT

132

(2)

Other sensors and derived products

134

(2)

Other satellite applications in oceanography

136

(1)

The future

137

(1)

Age of ocean water

137

(2)

Graphical presentation of data

139

Variation in space: profiles and sections

139

(1)

Vertical direction

139

(1)

Horizontal direction

140

(1)

Variation in time

140

(1)

Time-series plots

140

(2)

Current data plots

142

(1)

Isentropic analysis

143

(1)

Characteristic diagrams

144

(1)

Two characteristics, e.g. T-S, T-O2

144

(2)

Global T- S characteristics of ocean waters

146

(1)

Core method

147

(1)

Three characteristics, e.g. T-S-V, T-S-t

148

(5)

Conclusion

153

Circulation and Water Masses of the Oceans

(222)

Introduction, mechanisms

154

(19)

Thermohaline circulation

154

(4)

Wind-driven circulate jolt

158

(7)

Mixing processes

165

(5)

Circulation and water masses

170

(3)

Southern Ocean

173

(7)

Divisions of the Southern Ocean

173

(2)

Southern Ocean circulation

175

(2)

Southern Ocean water masses

177

(1)

Antarctic zone

177

(2)

Subantarctic zone

179

(1)

Atlantic Ocean

180

(28)

Atlantic Ocean as a whole

180

(1)

South Atlantic Ocean

181

(1)

South Atlantic circulation

181

(1)

South Atlantic volume transports

181

(3)

Equatorial Atlantic circulation

184

(1)

North Atlantic circulation; general

184

(1)

Gulf Stream system

185

(5)

Gulf Stream volume transport

190

(1)

Gulf Stream temperature and salinity distributions

190

(2)

Gulf Stream rings and ocean eddies

192

(3)

Atlantic Ocean water masses

195

(1)

Atlantic Ocean upper waters

196

(1)

Atlantic Ocean deep-water masses and circulation

196

(5)

T-S characteristics of subsurface waters of the Atlantic Ocean

201

(7)

North Atlantic Adjacent Seas

208

(11)

Mediterranean Sect

208

(3)

Black Sea

211

(2)

Baltic Sea

213

(1)

Norwegian and Greenland Seas

214

(2)

Labrador Sea, Baffin Bay and Hudson Bay

216

(2)

Adjacent seas; inflow and outflow characteristics

218

(1)

Arctic Sea

219

(16)

Arctic Sea: upper-layer circulation

220

(1)

Arctic Sea water masses

220

(1)

Arctic Water

221

(2)

Atlantic Water

223

(1)

Deep or Bottom Water

224

(1)

Arctic Sea budgets

225

(1)

Ice in the sea

226

(1)

Ice physics

227

(4)

Distribution of sea-ice

231

(1)

Build-up and break-up of sea-ice in several regions

232

(1)

Icebergs

233

(2)

Pacific Ocean

235

(35)

Pacific Ocean circulation

235

(1)

Pacific Ocean: equatorial circulation

235

(5)

A meridional section across the upper equatorial Pacific

240

(2)

Zonal and temporal variations of the Pacific equatorial Current system

242

(6)

Convergences and divergences associated with current systems

248

(3)

Deeper Currents in the equatorial Pacific

251

(1)

North Pacific circulation

252

(1)

North Pacific gyre and the Kuroshio

252

(2)

Influence of the North Pacific Sect-Surface Temperature on The North American climate

254

(1)

South Pacific circulation

255

(1)

Eastern boundary currents; Peru Current and El Nino

256

(1)

Peru Current

256

(2)

El Nino and the Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and La Nina

258

(5)

Pacific Ocean water mosses

263

(1)

Pacific Ocean upper water

263

(5)

Pacific Ocean deep waters

268

(2)

Indian Ocean

270

(4)

Indian Ocean circulation

270

(3)

Indian Ocean water masses

273

(1)

Red Sea and Persian Gulf

274

(2)

Coastal Oceanography

276

(15)

Introduction

276

(3)

Coastal Upwelling

279

(1)

Ekman circulation in shallow water

280

(1)

Estuaries

281

(3)

Types of estuaries

281

(1)

Estuarine circulation

281

(3)

Coral reefs

284

(7)

Introduction

286

(1)

Topography

286

(1)

Water properties

286

(1)

Tides

287

(1)

Currents

288

(1)

Circulation in lagoons

289

(2)

Some Directions for Future Work

291

(7)

Appendix Units used in descriptive physical oceanography

298

(3)

Bibliography

301

(12)

Suggestions for Further Reading

301

(2)

References to Journal and Review Articles

303

(10)

Index

313

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