Ocean Currents
Published on 1. January 1968
351 pages
978-0-08-087040-3 (ISBN)
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Ocean Currents
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- Front Cover
- Ocean Currents
- Copyright Page
- CONTENTS
- Preface
- CHAPTER I. OBSERVATIONS AND METHODS OF CURRENT MEASUREMENTS
- Variability of ocean currents and practical problems in measurement
- Direct current measurements-Langrangian and Eulerian methods
- Indirect methods of current measurements
- CHAPTER II. PRESENTATION OF OCEAN CURRENTS AND WATER MASS TRANSPORTS
- The use of current measurements
- Singularities in a current field
- Current charts
- Major ocean currents
- CHAPTER III. BASIC HYDRODYNAMICAL BACKGROUND
- Pressure, density and geopotential
- The equations of motion
- The equation of continuity
- Turbulence, mixing and diffusion
- CHAPTER IV. MAJOR TYPES OF OCEAN CURRENTS
- Geostrophic currents
- Inertia currents
- Circular motion and meandering currents
- Currents including friction and diffusion
- Wind-driven currents in a homogeneous ocean
- Currents in a non-homogeneous ocean
- CHAPTER V. THE GENERAL CIRCULATION OF THE OCEANS
- Horizontal circulation of wind-driven ocean currents
- Wind-driven and thermohaline circulations
- Special current systems and current branches
- REFERENCES
- INDEX
