By S. A. Thorpe

ISBN-10: 0521676800

ISBN-13: 9780521676809

ISBN-10: 0521859484

ISBN-13: 9780521859486

This textbook presents an creation to turbulent movement taking place evidently within the ocean on scales starting from millimetres to enormous quantities of kilometres. It describes turbulence within the combined boundary layers on the sea floor and seabed, turbulent movement within the density-stratified water among, and the strength assets that aid and maintain ocean blending. Little earlier wisdom of actual oceanography is thought. The textual content is supported by means of various figures, vast extra analyzing lists, and greater than 50 workouts which are graded in hassle. targeted ideas to the routines can be found to teachers on-line at www.cambridge.org/9780521859486. This textbook is meant for undergraduate classes in actual oceanography, and all scholars drawn to multidisciplinary points of ways the sea works, from the coastline to the deep abyssal plains. It additionally kinds an invaluable lead-in to the author's extra complicated graduate textbook, The Turbulent Ocean (Cambridge collage Press, 2005).

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