The goal of this textbook is to acquaint, educate, and interest students and professionals in ocean physics. The book is divided into five major sections (descriptive ocean physics, basic equations, ocean circulation, waves and instabilities, and the dynamic coast) with a progressive level of math course requirements ranging from basic calculus to partial differential equations. The book covers a variety of scales, ranging from the large–scale, such as basin–wide currents to mesoscale eddies, down to the smaller scale of features like surface gravity waves and rip currents. This book is guided by an educational approach that seeks to engage the reader by exploring the ocean through the eyes of ocean physicists. What do they see from the ocean physics perspective when they explore the ocean on a variety of scales? How do they build simple mathematical descriptions of these complex processes? What phenomena do they explore in coastal versus global oceanography? How do emerging technologies play a role? What are the sub–disciplines of ocean physics and why is ocean physics important to understand?
- ISBN: 978-1-4443-3378-7
- Editorial: Wiley–Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 576
- Fecha Publicación: 20/02/2015
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés