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In trying to discover as much as possible about the marine environment, oceanography has split into many subdisciplines, each represented by innumerable publications. To date however, there has been no concise synthesis introducing readers to the whole array of physical processes in the sea, and sho...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dera, Jerzy
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; New York : Warszawa : Elsevier ; PWN-Polish Scientific Publishers, 1992.
Series:Elsevier oceanography series ; 53.
Subjects:
Oceanography.
Oceanography
Océanographie.
oceanography.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Oceanography.
NATURE > Ecosystems & Habitats > Oceans & Seas.
Meeresphysik
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover; Marine Physics; Copyright Page; Preface; Contents; Chapter 1. A General Picture of Physical Processes in the Ocean; Chapter 2. Seawater as a Physical Medium; Chapter 3. The Thermodynamics of Seawater; Chapter 4. The Interaction of Light and Other Electromagnetic Radiation With Seawater. The Inherent optical Properties of the Sea; Chapter 5. Solar Radiation Inflow and the Natural Irradiance in the Sea. The Apparent Optical Properties of the Sea; Chapter 6. The Transfer of Mass. Heat and Momentum in the Marine Environment.