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Descriptive Physical Oceanography
An Introduction
- 7th Edition - July 1, 2017
- Authors: Lynne D. Talley, George L. Pickard, William J. Emery, James H. Swift
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 5 0 9 7 - 2
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 5 0 9 7 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 1 0 0 9 2 4 - 6
Descriptive Physical Oceanography: An Introduction, Seventh Edition is the basic go-to book for learning about what the ocean looks like physically – its motion (circu… Read more
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Request a sales quoteDescriptive 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.
- Provides the connection between the descriptive and simple dynamical frameworks for physical oceanography
- New supplementary content, including summaries and integrated exercises
- Graphics and intended linked animations provide basis for course lectures and topic-specific seminars
- Improved integration of Java Ocean Atlas into important concepts throughout the text
Oceanographers, atmospheric scientists and climate scientists. Student market: graduate students in oceanography (all aspects – physical, chemical and biological)
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
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
- No. of pages: 560
- Language: English
- Edition: 7
- Published: July 1, 2017
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128050972
- Hardback ISBN: 9780128050972
- eBook ISBN: 9780081009246
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Lynne D. Talley
Lynne Talley is a Professor of Oceanography at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), University of California San Diego. Lynne is a seagoing oceanographer with research interests in the water mass distributions and circulation of the world ocean. She is a graduate of Oberlin College (B.A. in physics) and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution/Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Program (Ph.D. in physical oceanography). She has been an editor of the Journal of Physical Oceanography and has served on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (AR4 and AR5), many committees of the National Academy of Sciences, and planning and steering committees for major field programs, including the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) of the 1990s and the U.S. Global Ocean Carbon and Repeat Hydrography Program. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Geophysical Union, the Oceanography Society, and the American Meteorological Society.
Affiliations and expertise
Scripps Insitution of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, USAGP
George L. Pickard
George Pickard (1913-2007) was a Professor of Oceanography at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and was Director of the UBC Institute of Oceanography from 1958 to 1978. He received his B.A. and his Ph.D. in physics from Oxford. He was appointed to the UBC physics department after service in WWII. George was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Royal Society of Canada, and the National Geographic Society.
Affiliations and expertise
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, CanadaWE
William J. Emery
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
Affiliations and expertise
William J. Emery works at the University of Colorado in Boulder, CO, USA.JS
James H. Swift
James Swift is a Research Oceanographer at SIO. Jim is a seagoing oceanographer with research interests in Arctic Ocean and Nordic Seas water masses and circulation. He frequently leads expeditions to all parts of the world ocean. His B.S. in physics is from Case Western Reserve University, and his Ph.D. is in physical oceanography from the University of Washington. He is the director of the CLIVAR and Carbon Hydrographic Data Office (formerly the WOCE Hydrographic Programme Office), and scientific advisor of SIO’s Oceanographic Data Facility. He oversees operations of the NSF-supported university contribution to the U.S. Global Ocean Carbon and Repeat Hydrography Program.
Affiliations and expertise
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, USA