Keywords:
Seawater -- Composition.
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Electronic books.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (181 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781483157573
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=1817497
Language:
English
Note:
Front Cover -- The Thermohaline Finestructure of the Ocean -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface to the English Translation -- Author's Summary -- Preface -- Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION -- 1.1 The Finestructure and Microstructure of Ocean Waters -- 1.2 Existing Instruments and Their Capabilities -- 1.3 Organization of Observations on the ThermohalineFinestructure of the Ocean -- 1.4 Examples of Observations -- 1.5 The Vertical, Horizontal, and Temporal Scales of theFinestructure of the Ocean -- 1.6 History of Investigations of ThermohalineFinestructure -- Chapter 2. THE FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS OF THE FINESTRUCTURE OFTHE OCEAN -- 2.1 Linearized Thermohaline Relationships and theSimpliest Consequences of Hydrostatics -- 2.2 The Finestructure and the Local Balances of Heatand Salt -- 2.3 The Kinematic Effect of Internal Waves -- 2.4 Irreversible Changes in Thermohaline Structure('Traumatic Effects') Resulting from Turbulent Mixing -- 2.5 The Advective Transfer of Thermohaline Heterogeneities -- 2.6 Convective Reorganization of Thermohaline Structure as a Results of 'Double Diffusive from below -- 2.7 Meso-scale and Large-scale Consequences of MolecularProcesses -- 2.8 The Sequence and Relationships of Structure-formingProcesses in the Ocean -- Chapter 3. THE ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF OBSERVATIONS -- 3.1 Separation of Profiles -- 3.2 A Selective Analysis of Perturbations and MeanProfiles -- 3.3 T'- and S'-correlation of Thermohaline Finestructure -- 3.4 Analysis of Spectra -- 3.5 Spatial and Temporal Variations of StatisticalCharacteristics -- 3.6 A Combined Analysis of Profiles of the VerticalGradients of Velocity and Density and a Comparisonof the Associated Finestructure -- 3.7 Some General Conclusions -- Chapter 4. TEMPERATURE AND DENSITY INVERSIONS IN THE OCEAN -- 4.1 Introductory Remarks.
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4.2 Thermohaline Disturbances Accompanying the IntrusionProcess in the Ocean -- 4.3 Intrusive Inversions of Temperature in the ArabianSea -- 4.4 The Temperature Inversion in the Timor Sea -- 4.5 Other Examples of the Formation of IntrusiveInversions of Temperature -- 4.6 The Formation of a Temperature Inversion by Means ofVertical Convection Associated with Local Instabilityof the Oceanic Thermocline -- 4.7 Inversions of Vertical Density Gradient -- Chapter 5. STEP STRUCTURES IN THE OCEAN AND THEIR ORIGIN -- 5.1 Introductory Remarks -- 5.2 Advective Layering of the Upper Quasi-Uniform Layer -- 5.3 Step Structure of Meso-scale Temperature Inversions -- 5.4 Step Structures in the Thermohalocline -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- A. Translated Titles of Russian References -- B. Non-Russian References -- C. Recent References (Added to Translation) -- Author Index -- Subject Index.
