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Descriptive Physical Oceanography,

Edition 7 An Introduction

Editors: By Lynne D. Talley, George L. Pickard, William J. Emery and James H. Swift

Publication Date: 31 Dec 2045

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Descriptive Physical Oceanography: An Introduction, Seventh Edition is the basic go-to book for learning about what the ocean looks like physically – its motion (circulation, waves, tides, eddies), its physical properties (temperature/salinity distributions and equation of state), its forcing, and its role in the climate system. It includes detailed chapters on each ocean basin and a chapter on the major marginal seas, describing the forcing, circulation, and water masses in each region. A final detailed chapter pulls this all together into the global circulation. In order to understand the physical processes and to understand how data are used, it includes chapters on introductory dynamics and data analysis. Each chapter includes an introductory section that is self-standing, so that particularly for the lectures on specific ocean regions, only the introduction is necessary. The remaining text in those chapters is suitable for and used in targeted seminar courses, or by practitioners who want a quick introduction to circulation and water mass structure of a given region.

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Provides the connection between the descriptive and simple dynamical frameworks for physical oceanography
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By Lynne D. Talley, Scripps Insitution of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, USA; George L. Pickard, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; William J. Emery, William J. Emery works at the University of Colorado in Boulder, CO, USA. and James H. Swift, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, USA

1. Introduction to Descriptive Physical Oceanography
2. Ocean Dimensions, Shapes, and Bottom Materials
3. Physical Properties of Seawater,
4. Typical Distributions of Water Characteristics
5. Mass, Salt, and Heat Budgets and Wind Forcing
6. Data Analysis and Concepts and Observational Methods
7. Dynamical Processes for Descriptive Ocean Circulation
8. Gravity Waves, Tides, and Coastal Oceanography
9. Atlantic Ocean
10. Pacific Ocean
11. Indian Ocean
12. Arctic Ocean and Nordic Sea
13. Southern Ocean
14. Global Circulation and Water Properties
15. Climate and the Oceans

Descriptive Physical Oceanography,

Editors: By Lynne D. Talley, George L. Pickard, William J. Emery and James H. Swift

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