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Descriptive Physical Oceanography Lynne D. Talley (Scripps Inst. of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, USA)

Descriptive Physical Oceanography By Lynne D. Talley (Scripps Inst. of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, USA)

Descriptive Physical Oceanography by Lynne D. Talley (Scripps Inst. of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, USA)

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Descriptive Physical Oceanography by Lynne D. Talley (Scripps Inst. of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, USA)

'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.

Descriptive Physical Oceanography Reviews

'... This is an excellent book, maintaining and improving on the high standard of previous editions..' Ocean Challenge 1991 '...the book is a bargain. I have owned a copy of the first edition since 1968; however I intend having a copy of the fourth edition for my personal collection; I recommend that others follow suit.' Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences I have just finished teaching an introductory undergraduate survey course in physical oceanography using the new edition of Pickard's splendid book. Although I am not unprejudiced (since I have used the first edition for about four years), both editions have been a joy to use.' 'Any person wanting an introduction to the subject would do well to read this book.' Choice

About Lynne D. Talley (Scripps Inst. of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, USA)

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction; Ocean dimensions, shapes and bottom materials; Physical properties of sea-water; Typical distributions of water characteristics in the oceans; Water, salt and heat budgets of the oceans; Instruments and methods; Circulation and water masses of the oceans; Coastal oceanography; Some directions for future work; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.

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GOR007378736
9780750627597
075062759X
Descriptive Physical Oceanography by Lynne D. Talley (Scripps Inst. of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, USA)
Lynne D. Talley (Scripps Inst. of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, USA)
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