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" Regional oceanography : "
Matthias Tomczak and J. Stuart Godfrey.
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BL
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713117
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b535306
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Tomczak, M.,1941-
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Regional oceanography : : an introduction /\ Matthias Tomczak and J. Stuart Godfrey.
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1st ed.
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Oxford, England ;New York :: Pergamon,, 1994.
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vii, 422 p., [4] p. of plates :: ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ;; 26 cm.
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0080410200 (flexicover)
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: 0080410219 (hardcover)
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: 9780080410203 (flexicover)
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: 9780080410210 (hardcover)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 397-409) and index.
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| Contents
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1. Introduction: What drives the ocean currents? -- 2. Temperature, salinity, density and the oceanic pressure field -- 3. The Coriolis force, geostrophy, Rossby waves and the westward intensification -- 4. Ekman layer transports, Ekman pumping and the Sverdrup balance -- 5. Water mass formation, subduction and the oceanic heat budget -- 6. Antarctic oceanography -- 7. Arctic oceanography; the path of North Atlantic Deep Water -- 8. The Pacific Ocean -- 9. Hydrology of the Pacific Ocean -- lO. Adjacent seas of the Pacific Ocean -- 11. The Indian Ocean -- 12. Hydrology of the Indian Ocean -- 13. Adjacent seas of the Indian Ocean and the Australasian Mediterranean Sea (the Indonesian throughflow) -- 14. The Atlantic Ocean -- 15. Hydrology of the Atlantic Ocean -- 16. Adjacent seas of the Atlantic Ocean -- 17. Aspects of advanced regional oceanography -- 18. The oceans and the world's mean climate -- 19. El Nino and the Southern Oscillation (ENSO) -- 20. The ocean and climate change.
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Oceanography.
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GC11.2.T66 1994
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Godfrey, J. Stuart.
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