Descriptive Physical Oceanography, Fifth Edition: An Introduction

W. J. Emery et George L. Pickard

ISBN 10: 0080379524 / ISBN 13: 9780080379524

Published by Pergamon, 1990

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Descriptive Physical Oceanography, Fifth Edition: An Introduction
• Publisher: Pergamon
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0080379524
• ISBN 13: 9780080379524
• Binding: Softcover
• Edition: 5th or later Edition
• Condition: Très bon

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Synopsis

The rapidly developing field of oceanography has necessitated the publication of a fifth edition of this classic textbook. The revised version provides an introduction to descriptive (synoptic) oceanography and contains updated information on topics such as the heat budget, instruments and in particular, the use of satellites. The sections on equatorial oceanography, sea-ice physics, distribution and El Nino have been completely rewritten. The book is further supplemented by text on thermohaline circulation, mixing and also coral reef oceanography.

About the Author

Lynne Talley is a Professor of Oceanography at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), University of California San Diego. Lynne is a seagoing oceanographer with research interests in the water mass distributions and circulation of the world ocean. She is a graduate of Oberlin College (B.A. in physics) and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution/Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Program (Ph.D. in physical oceanography). She has been an editor of the Journal of Physical Oceanography and has served on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (AR4 and AR5), many committees of the National Academy of Sciences, and planning and steering committees for major field programs, including the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) of the 1990s and the U.S. Global Ocean Carbon and Repeat Hydrography Program. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Geophysical Union, the Oceanography Society, and the American Meteorological Society.