Descriptive Physical Oceanography: An Introduction - Brossura

Pickard, George L.; Talley, Lynne

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ISBN 10: 075062759X ISBN 13: 9780750627597

Casa editrice: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1990

Riassunto

'Descriptive Physical Oceanography: An Introduction' 5th edition provides an introduction to descriptive (synoptic) physical oceanography for science undergraduates and early graduate students. There has been an updating of topics such as the heat budget, instruments (particularly the use of satellites), a complete revision of the material on equatorial oceanography, sea-ice physics and distribution and El Nino and information has been added on thermohaline circulation, mixing nad coral reef oceanography.

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Informazioni sull?autore

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.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Data di pubblicazione: 1990
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 075062759X
• ISBN 13: 9780750627597
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 5
• Numero di pagine: 336
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile