Overview
Contains appendices for illustrating special cases
Treats the important semiannual and annual cycles in the tropic sea
Includes complementary information to assist the reader in understanding the differences between the phenomenon in different latitudes
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book is the first comprehensive introduction to the theory of equatorially-confined waves and currents in the ocean. Among the topics treated are inertial and shear instabilities, wave generation by coastal reflection, semiannual and annual cycles in the tropic sea, transient equatorial waves, vertically-propagating beams, equatorial Ekman layers, the Yoshida jet model, generation of coastal Kelvin waves from equatorial waves by reflection, Rossby solitary waves, and Kelvin frontogenesis. A series of appendices on midlatitude theories for waves, jets and wave reflections add further material to assist the reader in understanding the differences between the same phenomenon in the equatorial zone versus higher latitudes.
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Dynamics of the Equatorial Ocean
Authors: John P. Boyd
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-55476-0
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-55474-6Published: 06 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-57235-1Published: 15 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-55476-0Published: 25 September 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 517
Number of Illustrations: 132 b/w illustrations, 27 illustrations in colour
Topics: Oceanography, Geophysics/Geodesy, Climatology