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Description / Table of Contents:
Intro -- Ocean Currents: Physical Drivers in a Changing World -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: The restless ocean -- 1.1. Ten big questions -- 1.2. Organization vs. chaos -- 1.3. Measuring the ocean-Challenges and international organization -- 1.4. Measuring ocean currents -- 1.4.1. Drift measurements -- 1.4.2. Point measurements -- 1.4.3. Profile measurements -- 1.4.4. Radar measurements -- 1.5. Estimating ocean currents -- 1.5.1. Hydrography -- 1.5.2. Bottom pressure recorders -- 1.5.3. Satellite altimeters -- 1.5.4. Electrical cables -- 1.6. Computer simulation of ocean currents -- 1.7. An ocean of scales -- 1.8. Summary -- Chapter 2: Frameworks, data, and methods -- 2.1. Essential physics and scalar conservation -- 2.1.1. Seawater properties, the equation of state, and neutral surfaces -- 2.1.2. Conservation of mass, salt, and heat -- 2.2. Essential dynamics-With the flow and at a fixed point -- 2.2.1. Real forces -- 2.2.2. The effects of Earth's rotation -- 2.2.3. The equations of motion-Following the flow -- 2.2.4. Advection of momentum -- 2.2.5. The equations of motion-At a fixed point -- 2.3. Scaling arguments and approximating the equations of motion -- 2.4. Ocean and climate data products -- 2.4.1. Ocean observations (Argo) -- 2.4.2. Ocean reanalysis (GODAS) -- 2.4.3. Ocean analysis (EN4) -- 2.4.4. Air-sea fluxes (COREv2) -- 2.4.5. Atmospheric reanalysis (NCEP/NCAR) -- 2.4.6. Tropical cyclone tracks (IBTRaCS -- HURDAT) -- 2.4.7. Sea ice (NSIDC) and icebergs (IIP -- BYU/NIC) -- 2.5. Numerical models of the ocean and climate -- 2.5.1. Governing equations and approximations -- 2.5.2. Numerical solution -- 2.5.3. Meshes, grids, and vertical coordinates -- 2.5.4. Resolution, processes, and parameterizations -- 2.5.5. From bespoke to community codes -- 2.5.6. Coupling, complexity, and climate.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (554 pages)
ISBN:
9780128160602
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=6661042
Language:
English
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