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Coastal Oceanography

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  • © 1983

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Editors:
  1. Herman G. Gade

    1. University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

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  2. Anton Edwards

    1. Scottish Marine Biological Association, Oban, UK

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  3. Harald Svendsen

    1. University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

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Part of the book series: Nato Conference Series (NATOCS, volume 11)

Part of the book sub series: IV Marine Sciences (MARS)

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Table of contents (32 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Coastal and Shelf Sea Circulation

    1. On the Dynamics of Coastal Currents

      • Martin Mork
      Pages 1-7

    2. Observations of the Alaska Coastal Current

      • Thomas C. Royer
      Pages 9-30

    3. Aspects of the Dynamics of the Residual Circulation of the Arabian Gulf

      • J. R. Hunter
      Pages 31-42

    4. Hydrodynamic Model of a Stratified Sea

      • N. S. Heaps
      Pages 43-64

    5. Three Dimensional Models of North Sea Circulation

      • Alan M. Davies
      Pages 65-91

    6. On the Circulation of the Stratified North Sea

      • Jan O. Backhaus
      Pages 93-111

    7. The State-of-the-Art in Coastal Ocean Modelling: A Numerical Model of Coastal Upwelling off Peru-Including Mixed Layer Dynamics

      • James J. O’Brien, George W. Heburn
      Pages 113-164

    8. The Currents in a Shallow Coastal Corner Region — the German Bight — Model, Measurements and Forecast

      • Ekkehard Mittelstaedt
      Pages 165-173

  3. Coastal Upwelling and Other Large Scale Coastal and Shelf Phenomena

    1. Upwellings and Kelvin Waves Generated by Transient Atmospheric Fronts

      • Michel Crépon, Claude Richez
      Pages 175-203

    2. Wind-Forced Shelf Break Upwelling

      • Brian D. Petrie
      Pages 205-216

    3. A Seasonal Upwelling Event Observed off the West Coast of British Columbia, Canada

      • Howard J. Freeland
      Pages 217-223

    4. Shelf Waves of Diurnal Period Along Vancouver Island

      • William R. Crawford, Richard E. Thomson, W. Stanford Huggett
      Pages 225-234

  4. Topographically Controlled Flow and Other Mesoscale Shelf Processes

    1. Topographic Influences on Coastal Circulation: A Review

      • G. A. Cannon, G. S. E. Lagerloef
      Pages 235-252

    2. Topographically Induced Variability in the Baltic Sea

      • A. Aitsam, J. Elken, L. Talsepp, J. Laanemets
      Pages 253-270

    3. An Additional Analysis of Inertial Oscillations on the Continental Shelf

      • Claude Millot, Catherine Moulin
      Pages 271-278

    4. Coastal Upwelling, Cyclogenesis and Squid Fishing Near Cape Farewell, New Zealand

      • M. J. Bowman, S. M. Chiswell, P. L. Lapennas, R. A. Murtagh, B. A. Foster, V. Wilkinson et al.
      Pages 279-310

    5. Whirls in the Norwegian Coastal Current

      • T. A. McClimans, J. H. Nilsen
      Pages 311-320

    6. Observations of Instabilities of a Great Lakes Coastal Current

      • Theodore Green
      Pages 321-335

  5. Topographically Induced Small Scale Processes

    1. Stratified Flow over Sills

      • D. M. Farmer
      Pages 337-362
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Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

    Herman G. Gade, Harald Svendsen

  • Scottish Marine Biological Association, Oban, UK

    Anton Edwards

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Coastal Oceanography

  • Editors: Herman G. Gade, Anton Edwards, Harald Svendsen

  • Series Title: Nato Conference Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6648-9

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1983

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4615-6650-2Published: 05 December 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-6648-9Published: 17 April 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 582

  • Topics: Oceanography

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