The book Atmosphere-Ocean Modeling: Coupling and Couplers by Carlos R. Mechoso offers an in-depth exploration of the critical aspects of modeling the interaction between the atmosphere and the ocean, which are key components of the Earth?s climate system. This work delves into the techniques of coupling atmospheric and oceanic systems through numerical models, essential for understanding global…
The book "Waves in the Ocean" by P.H. LeBlond offers a thorough investigation of the dynamics of ocean waves, exploring the physical principles behind their generation, propagation, and behavior. The book delves into the different types of waves found in the ocean, including wind-driven waves, tidal waves, and internal waves, providing both theoretical and observational insights into their form…
The book "Methods and Results of Theoretical Oceanography I: Dynamics of the Homogeneous and the Quasihomogeneous Ocean" by Wolfgang Krauss offers an in-depth examination of theoretical aspects in physical oceanography, with a primary focus on the dynamics of homogeneous and quasihomogeneous oceans. This work delves into the fundamental principles governing the movement of water masses in ocean…
The book represents all the knowledge we currently have on ocean circulation. It presents an up-to-date summary of the state of the science relating to the role of the oceans in the physical climate system. The book is structured to guide the reader through the wide range of world ocean circulation experiment (WOCE) science in a consistent way. Cross-references between contributors have been…
Wave breaking represents one of the most interesting and challenging problems for fluid mechanics and physical oceanography. Over the last 15 years our understanding has undergone a dramatic leap forward, and wave breaking has emerged as a process whose physics is clarified and quantified. Ocean wave breaking plays the primary role in the air-sea exchange of momentum, mass and heat, and it is o…
This book is the first comprehensive introduction to the theory of equatorially-confined waves and currents in the ocean. Among the topics treated are inertial and shear instabilities, wave generation by coastal reflection, semiannual and annual cycles in the tropic sea, transient equatorial waves, vertically-propagating beams, equatorial Ekman layers, the Yoshida jet model, generation of coast…
Fundamentals of Acoustical Oceanography an important reference for specialists in acoustics, oceanography, marine biology, and related fields. This book also encourages a new generation of scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs to apply the modern methods of acoustical physics to probe the unknown sea. The book is an authoritative, modern text with examples and exercises. It contains techniqu…
Modeling Atmospheric and Oceanic Flows: Insights from Laboratory Experiments and Numerical Simulations provides a broad overview of recent progress in using laboratory experiments and numerical simulations to model atmospheric and oceanic fluid motions. This volume not only surveys novel research topics in laboratory experimentation, but also highlights recent developments in the corresponding …
The Oceanographer�s Companion�is intended to familiarize a student with the basics of navigation, seamanship, marine engineering, communications, safety-of-life-at-sea, shiphandling, knots and splices, first aid, and so much more. The book will have a very practical feel with lots of examples. Scientists and engineers embarking on their first voyage for oceanographic or meteorological resea…
The oceans are an integral and important part of the climate system. The oceans and climate introduces the multi - disciplinary controls on air - sea interaction - physical, chemical and biological - and showa how these interact. It demonstrates how the ocean contribues to, and is affected by, climate processes on timescales from seasonal to millenial and longer. Past, presente and future relat…
The principles of chemical oceanography provide insight into the processes regulating the marine carbon cycle. The text offers a background in chemical oceanography and a description of how chemical elements in seawater and ocean sediments are used as tracers of physical, biological, chemical and geological processes in the ocean. The first seven chapters present basic topics of thermodynamics,…
This book is specially written for oceanographers, students, and seasoned researchers alike to reveal the huge benefits in learning the ocean from space. Satellite is able to monitor many ocean phenomena (eddies, ocean fronts, upwelling, phytoplankton blooms, ocean surface wave, wind over the sea, ENSO, sea ice distribution, tsunami, etc) and measure their related variables. The combination of …