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Cover ......Page 1 THE THEORY OF LARGE-SCALE OCEAN CIRCULATION......Page 3 Title ......Page 5 Copyright......Page 6 Large-Scale Vertical Momentum Balance......Page 9 Preface......Page 13 1.1 The Large-Scale Ocean Circulation......Page 17 1.2 Physical Variables......Page 20 1.3 Fluid Motion and the Material Derivative......Page 22 1.4 Mass Conservation......Page 24 1.5 Momentum Balance......Page 25 1.8 Equation of State......Page 26 1.9 Seawater Equations of Motion......Page 27 1.10 Fluid Parcel Trajectories......Page 28 1.11 Notes......Page 29 2.1 Scaling......Page 30 2.2 Spherical Polar Coordinates......Page 32 2.3 The Hydrostatic Approximation......Page 34 Pressure Effect on Density......Page 36 Incompressibility......Page 38 Entropy and Pressure Heating......Page 39 Large Thermal Variations......Page 40 Potential Temperature......Page 41 Gravitational Stability and Buoyancy Frequency......Page 44 2.6 Inviscid, Nondiffusive, Adiabatic Flow......Page 47 2.7 The Primitive Equations for the Ocean......Page 49 2.8 Thermohaline Planetary Geostrophic Equations......Page 50 2.9 Notes......Page 52 3.1 Vorticity Balance......Page 53 3.2 The β-Plane......Page 54 3.3 Boundary Conditions on

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Author
Roger M. Samelson
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
Published
2011
Language
EN
ISBN
9781139099578
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Science, Ecology, Stem

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