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OverviewThe ocean evokes the most romantic images of nature. It is the eternally hostile element that has taken a heavy toll for every act of discovery, sometimes in human lives. No wonder there has always been a romantic aura about those who take to the sea, be they pirates, fishermen, sailors, the ocean itself, have or even oceanographers. Their exploits, and provided ample food for thought and poetic inspiration. Clearly, man kind owes much to the ocean for the progress of civilization. There is more to wresting the ocean's secrets from its depths than simply the excitement of struggling with the elements. It is the thrill of ideas, of discoveries made by scientific analysis of oceanic phenomena. There have been quite a few renowned oceanographers who have never set foot aboard ship. All they did was to use the general laws of fluid behavior and mathematical formulas as tools to study the ocean and to predict events. Amazing 'armchair' discoveries of currents and deep sea flows, subsequently confirmed by observations at sea, are fascinat ing. What a scientist feels when uncovering the true behavior of oceanic phenomena in abstract columns of numbers, in long and cumbersome, or sometimes intriguingly simple, mathematical relations, is exhilara tion. My objective has been to bring this delightful esthetic pleasure within everyone's reach - the outcome is this book. It was about twelve years ago when I first recognized the inherent harmony of the theory of currents. I was probably prompted by H. Full Product DetailsAuthor: D. TolmazinPublisher: Chapman and Hall Imprint: Chapman and Hall Edition: New edition Weight: 0.500kg ISBN: 9780412532306ISBN 10: 0412532301 Pages: 200 Publication Date: 31 March 1985 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Replaced By: 9780412611704 Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsSea-air interaction. How ocean currents are studied. Causes of ocean currents. Turbulence and rotation of waters in oceans and seas. Westward intensification of surface currents. Countercurrents and eddies. Deep-ocean circulation. Currents and climate.ReviewsProfessor Tolmazin has to a large extent succeeded in communicating his enthusiasm about ocean circulation with only a few equations. But there is much more in this book...there are sections on turbulence...and on recent observing techniques such as satellite altimetry and acoustic tomography, as well as descriptions of more classical instruments, observation and interpretation - Nature Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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