The Physical Oceanography of Sea Straits
Title | The Physical Oceanography of Sea Straits PDF eBook |
Author | L.J. Pratt |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | 585 |
Release | 2012-12-06 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9400906773 |
Suppose one were given the task of mapping the general circulation in an unfamiliar ocean. The ocean, like our own, is subdivided into basins and marginal seas interconnected by sea straits. Assuming a limited budget for this undertaking, one would do well to choose the straits as observational starting points. To begin with, the currents flowing from one basin to the next, over possibly wide and time-varying paths, are confined to narrow and stable routes within the straits. Mass, heat and chemical budgets for individual basins can be formulated in terms of the fluxes measured across the straits using a relatively small number of instruments. The confinement of the flow by a strait can also give rise to profound dynamical conse quences including choking or hydraulic control, a process similar to that by which a dam regulates the flow from a reservoir. The funneling geometry can lead to enhanced tidal modulation and increased velocities, giving rise to local instabilities, mixing, internal bores, jumps, and other striking hydraulic and fine scale phenomena. In short, sea straits repre sent choke points which are observationally and dynamically strategic and which contain a full range of fascinating physical processes.
The Physical Oceanography of Sea Straits
Title | The Physical Oceanography of Sea Straits PDF eBook |
Author | L J Pratt |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 608 |
Release | 1990-09-30 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9789400906785 |
Bering Strait
Title | Bering Strait PDF eBook |
Author | Lawrence K. Coachman |
Publisher | University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | 198 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9780295954424 |
Synthesis of results of oceanographic explorations conducted in the region extending from the Northern Bering Sea to the southern Chukchi Sea between 1922 and 1973.
The Physical Geography of the Sea
Title | The Physical Geography of the Sea PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew Fontaine Maury |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 636 |
Release | 1856 |
Genre | Marine meteorology |
ISBN |
Physical Oceanography of the Southeast Asian Waters
Title | Physical Oceanography of the Southeast Asian Waters PDF eBook |
Author | Klaus Wyrtki |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 212 |
Release | 1961 |
Genre | China Sea |
ISBN |
The Physical Geography of the Sea, and Its Meteorology
Title | The Physical Geography of the Sea, and Its Meteorology PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew Fontaine Maury |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 544 |
Release | 1860 |
Genre | Ocean |
ISBN |
Physical Oceanography
Title | Physical Oceanography PDF eBook |
Author | Albert Defant |
Publisher | Pergamon |
Total Pages | 764 |
Release | 1961 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN |