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    Les Ulis : EDP Sciences
    Keywords: Oceanography-Research ; Oceanography ; Research ; Electronic books
    Description / Table of 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 -- 2.2 Distribution of ocean-atmosphere heat fluxes -- 2.2.1 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 -- 3.3 Bottom Waters and Deep Waters -- 3.4 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 -- 5.2.1 Wind acting near a coastline: coastal upwelling
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (580 pages)
    ISBN: 9782759821501
    Series Statement: Current Natural Sciences Ser
    DDC: 551.46007199999997
    Language: English
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