Author : Joseph Pedlosky
Release : 2013-03-09
Genre : Science
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Ocean Circulation Theory by : Joseph Pedlosky
Download or read book Ocean Circulation Theory written by Joseph Pedlosky. This book was released on 2013-03-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of the advances made in the last decade and a half in this field. Based on an advanced graduate level course, the book represents fundamental insights into the structure of the physical theory of the large-scale dynamics of the oceans. The author has maintained throughout a blend of analytical and numerical results so as to achieve as deep a physical understanding of the dynamics of the large-scale circulations as possible. The results of the theories are compared with observations and the success or inadequacies of the theories are highlighted. Topics of particular interest are: theory of the wind-driven circulation, the thermocline, the equatorial circulation and the abyssal circulation. Much of the material - previously scattered throughout the literature - has been collated here for the first time.