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  title info:
    title: Physical oceanography of continental shelves
  name:
    name part: Brink, Kenneth H.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nju
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 248 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
  abstract: This book is intended as a graduate-level textbook and professional reference on the physical oceanography of the continental shelf and slope. Defined as water deeper than about three meters and shallower than a kilometer, this region of the ocean is important for a variety of scientific and practical reasons, from its high biological productivity and role in distributing outflows from the continents to its heavy usage in transportation and recreation. In recent years, research on the coastal ocean has expanded as the study of both short- and long-term anthropogenic change has become increasingly urgent. Yet there is no comprehensive treatment of the dynamics of this critical region. The book covers a range of topics involving currents and water properties, including turbulent boundary layers, wind driving, tides, buoyancy currents, waves, instabilities and connections with the open, deep ocean. Brink's approach-informed by over a decade teaching the corresponding course in Woods Hole/MIT's joint program-centers on the dynamics of particular processes and combinations of processes, but also includes copious observational examples. Intended to be accessible to graduate students in a range of oceanographic specialties, the book assumes two-three years of university-level math and at least an introductory course in quantitative physical oceanography.
  note: K.H. Brink.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Continental shelf
  subject:
    topic: Continental slopes
  subject:
    topic: Continental margins
  subject:
    topic: Physical oceanography
  classification: GC85 .B75 2023
  classification: 551.46/8
  identifier: 9780691236452
  identifier: 0691236453
  identifier: 9780691236469
  identifier: 2022045750
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 221114
    record change date: 20231106143405.5
    record identifier: in00004749840