By Rui Xin Huang
The interplay among ocean flow and weather switch has been an lively examine frontier in Earth sciences lately. Ocean move, and its similar geophysical fluid dynamical ideas, are actually taught at graduate point in lots of Earth and atmospheric technological know-how departments. this can be the 1st complex textbook to debate either wind-driven and thermohaline-driven tactics - vital elements of large-scale ocean move. It offers a concise creation to the dynamics and thermodynamics of oceanic common flow. This contains sea water thermodynamics and the energetics of the sea move; an exhaustive conception of wind-driven circulate; thermohaline flow with discussions on water mass formation/erosion, deep movement, and the hydrological cycle; and interactions among wind-driven and thermohaline move. hugely illustrated to assist the reader determine a transparent psychological photo of the actual ideas concerned, the publication is useful for complicated classes in ocean move and as a reference for oceanographers and Earth scientists.
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