TY - BOOK AU - Thorpe, Steve A., ed. TI - Elements of physical oceanography SN - 9780080964850 U1 - 551.4603 PY - 2013/// CY - Boston PB - Academic Press KW - Oceanography KW - Marine sciences KW - Marine ecology N1 - Elements of physical oceanography: an introduction -- SURFACE WAVES, TIDES, AND SEA LEVEL: Surface gravity and capillary waves -- Wind generation of waves -- Rogue waves -- Waves on beaches -- Wave energy -- Whitecaps and foam -- Breaking waves and near-surface turbulence -- Seiches -- Tsunami -- Storm surges -- Coastal trapped waves -- Tides -- Tidal energy -- Sea level change -- Sea level variations over geological time -- THE AIR-SEA INTERFACE: Heat and momentum fluxes at the sea surface -- Sea surface exchanges of momentum, heat, and fresh water determined by satellite -- Evaporation and humidity -- Freshwater transport and climate -- Air-sea gas exchange -- Air-sea transfer: Dimethyl sulfide, COS, CS₂, NH₄, non-methane hydrocarbons, Organo-halogens -- Air-sea transfer: N₂O, NO, CH₄, CO -- Gas exchanges in estuaries -- Penetrating shortwave radiation -- Radiative transfer in the ocean -- Atmospheric transport and deposition of particulate material in the oceans -- Surface films -- Bubbles -- BOUNDARY LAYERS: THE UPPER OCEAN BOUNDARY LAYERS: Upper ocean vertical structure -- Wind- and bouyancy-forced upper ocean -- Upper ocean space and time variability -- Upper ocean mean horizontal structure -- Upper ocean mixing processes -- Langmuir circulation and instability -- Upper ocean heat and freshwater budgets -- BOUNDARY LAYERS: THE BENTHIC BOUNDARY LAYER: Turbulence in the Benthic boundary layer -- Benthic boundary layer effects -- BOUNDARY LAYERS: UNDER-ICE BOUNDARY LAYER: Under-ice boundary layer -- Ice-ocean interaction -- INTERNAL WAVES: Internal waves -- Internal tides -- PROCESSES OF DIAPYCNAL MIXING: Three-dimensional (3d) turbulence -- Laboratory studies of turbulent mixing -- Internal tidal mixing -- Estimates of mixing -- Energetics of mixing -- Energetics of ocean mixing -- Fossil turbulence -- Open ocean convection -- Deep convection -- Double-diffusive convection -- Differential diffusion -- Dispersion and diffusion in the deep ocean -- HORIZONTAL DISPERSION, TRANSPORT, AND OCEAN PROPERTIES: Vertical modes -- Intrusions -- Dispersion in shallow seas -- Dispersion from hydrothermal vents -- Nepheloid layers -- Heat transport and climate -- El Nino South Oscillation (ENSO) -- North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) -- Water types and water masses -- Neutral surfaces and the Equation of state -- ICE: Sea ice: overview -- Sea ice: dynamics -- Sea ice -- PROCESSES IN COASTAL AND SHELF SEAS: Beaches, physical processes affecting -- Shelf Sea and slope sea fronts -- APPENDICES: Appendix 1: SI units and some equivalences -- Appendix 2: The Beaufort Wind Scale and Seastate ER -