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Introduction / G. L. Pickard -- Ch. 1. Geographic Setting -- Ch. 2. Wind, Rainfall, And Sediment Inflow. 2.1. Meteorology. 2.2. Freshwater Input. 2.3. Sediment Inflow -- Ch. 3. Water Properties And Patchiness. 3.1. Types Of Water. 3.2. Coral Sea Nutrients. 3.3. Shelf Waters. 3.4. River Plumes. 3.5. Topographically Controlled Patchiness. 3.6. Turbidity. 3.7. Biological Patchiness -- Ch. 4. The Tides. 4.1. Sea Levels. 4.2. Tidal Currents. 4.3. Internal Tides -- Ch. 5. Low-frequency Motions. 5.1. Low-frequency Sea-level Oscillations. 5.2. Low-frequency Current Fluctuations -- Ch. 6. Models Of The Low-frequency Circulation. 6.1. Barotropic Currents In The Central And Southern Regions. 6.2. Influence Of The Reefs On Cross-shelf Movements. 6.3. Baroclinic Effects In The Central Region. 6.4. Northern Region. 6.5. Torres Strait. 6.6. Influence Of The East Australian Current -- Ch. 7. High-frequency Waves. 7.1. Seiching. 7.2. Forcing. 7.3. Wave Breaking By Coral Reefs. 7.4. Wave Setup And Circulation. 7.5. Wave Focusing By Reef Platforms. 7.6. Biological Wave Damping -- Ch. 8. Reef-induced Circulation. 8.1. Reynolds Number Analogy. 8.2. Island Wakes. 8.3. Upwelling Mechanisms Around Coral R

Author

Eric Wolanski

Publisher

Boca Raton: CRC Press

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780849380471

Subjects

Science, Anthropology, Social_sciences