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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Neumann, Gerhard,

Titel

Ocean currents [electronic resource]

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• Elsevier oceanography series, 4

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• Elsevier Books AutoHoldings

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• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliography and index.
• 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 continuityTurbulence, 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
• Ocean Currents
• English