Ocean circulation / prepared by Angela Colling for the Course Team
Ocean circulation / prepared by Angela Colling for the Course Team
- 2nd ed. / prepared by Angela Colling for the Course Team.
- Boston : Butterworth Heinemann, in association with the Open University, 2001.
- 286 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 256) and index.
Introduction; The atmosphere and the ocean; Ocean currents; The North Atlantic gyre: observations and theories; Other major current systems; Global fluxes and the deep circulation; Suggested further reading; Answers and comments to questions.
Acceso restringido a miembros del Consorcio de Bibliotecas Universitarias de Andalucía.
This second edition retains the general structure of the first edition, but has been updated in the light of recent oceanographic research, and improved as a teaching text on the basis of feedback from past students and other readers. Notable additions include new sections addressing the topic of numerical modelling, and more discussion of natural oscillations in the ocean-atmosphere system (previously confined to the El Nįo phenomenon). In particular, the Chapter on the North Atlantic now includes a discussion of the North Atlantic Oscillation, as well as of the Great Salinity Anomaly. In the final Chapter, treatment of water mass formation has been updated to reflect recent ideas about the processes involved and how they relate to climatic change over different time-scales, from decades to millennia. High quality full colour diagrams Substantial chapter summaries ideal for revision Answers, hints and notes for questions at back of the book.
9780750652780 0750652780
Ocean circulation.
Oceanografía.
Biología marina.
Corrientes marinas
Circulation océanique.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 256) and index.
Introduction; The atmosphere and the ocean; Ocean currents; The North Atlantic gyre: observations and theories; Other major current systems; Global fluxes and the deep circulation; Suggested further reading; Answers and comments to questions.
Acceso restringido a miembros del Consorcio de Bibliotecas Universitarias de Andalucía.
This second edition retains the general structure of the first edition, but has been updated in the light of recent oceanographic research, and improved as a teaching text on the basis of feedback from past students and other readers. Notable additions include new sections addressing the topic of numerical modelling, and more discussion of natural oscillations in the ocean-atmosphere system (previously confined to the El Nįo phenomenon). In particular, the Chapter on the North Atlantic now includes a discussion of the North Atlantic Oscillation, as well as of the Great Salinity Anomaly. In the final Chapter, treatment of water mass formation has been updated to reflect recent ideas about the processes involved and how they relate to climatic change over different time-scales, from decades to millennia. High quality full colour diagrams Substantial chapter summaries ideal for revision Answers, hints and notes for questions at back of the book.
9780750652780 0750652780
Ocean circulation.
Oceanografía.
Biología marina.
Corrientes marinas
Circulation océanique.