Ocean Circulation (S330)

by TheOpenUniversity (Author)

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  1998

  $3.27

  A comprehensive text on ocean circulation with chapters covering: the causes of circulation patterns in the atmosphere and the oceans, and the interactions between them; surface circulation; the history of ideas about ocean circulation; and current systems at high and low altitudes.

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  Paperback
  1989

  $3.27

  This second edition retains the general structure of the first edition, but has been updated in the light of recent oceanographic research, and improved as a teaching text on the basis of feedback from past students and other readers. Notable additions include new sections addressing the topic of numerical modelling, and more discussion of natural oscillations in the ocean-atmosphere system (previously confined to the El Nino phenomenon). In particular, the Chapter on the North Atlantic now includes a discussion of the North Atlantic Oscillation, as well as of the Great Salinity Anomaly. In the final Chapter, treatment of water mass formation has been updated to reflect recent ideas about the processes involved and how they relate to climatic change over different time-scales, from decades to millennia. It includes high quality full colour diagrams, substantial chapter summaries ideal for revision. It also includes answers, hints and notes for questions at back of the book.