The near-surface layer of the ocean /
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| Author / Creator: | Fedorov, K. N. (Konstantin Nikolaevich) |
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| Uniform title: | Pripoverkhnostnyĭ sloĭ okeana. English. |
| Imprint: | Utrecht, Netherlands : VSP, 1992. |
| Description: | xiv, 259 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1486802 |
| Summary: | This book treats the structure and variability of basic physical fields in a thin near-surface layer which responds quickly to all short-term and local fluctuations of atmospheric forcing and of radiative solar energy flux. The book contains up-to-date information on different phenomena and processes in this layer based on research conducted over the last ten years. The following topics are treated in detail: basic types of vertical thermal structure of near-surface layers; anomalous phenomena on the ocean surface; thermal and haline boundary layers, its structures and relations to convection; diurnal thermocline and cycle nature of related processes; effects of precipitation on near-surface salinity and thermal structure; peculiarities of near-surface ocean currents; coherent (organized) forms of non-stationary currents (mushroom currents or vortex dipoles, transversal jets in coastal upwellings, vortices and jets in marginal ice zones); some aspects of effectiveness of remote sensing of the ocean by aerospace technique. |
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| Item Description: | Translation of Pripoverkhnostnyĭ sloĭ okeana. Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | xiv, 259 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Bibliography: p. 245-256. |
| ISBN: | 9067641367 |
