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1 online resource (580 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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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. |
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3. Atmospheric pressure and winds. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Oceanography.
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Oceanography. |
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Ocean.
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Ocean. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Fieux, MichÃl̈e. Planetary Ocean. Les Ulis : EDP Sciences, ©2017 9782759820702 |
| ISBN |
9782759821501 (electronic book) |
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2759821501 (electronic book) |
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9782759820702 |
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