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Fjord Oceanography

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  1. Howard J. Freeland

    1. Institute of Ocean Sciences, Sidney, Canada

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  2. David M. Farmer

    1. Institute of Ocean Sciences, Sidney, Canada

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  3. Colin D. Levings

    1. West Vancouver Laboratory, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, West Vancouver, Canada

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Part of the book series: Nato Conference Series (NATOCS, volume 4)

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

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Table of contents (67 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introductory Papers

    1. Pacific Fjords - A Review of Their Water Characteristics

      • G. L. Pickard, B. R. Stanton
      Pages 1-51

    2. Why Biologists are Interested in Fjords

      • Torleiv Brattegard
      Pages 53-66

  3. Physical Processes

    2. Topographic Effects in Stratified Fluids

      • Herbert E. Huppert
      Pages 117-140

    4. A Linear Model of Internal Tides in Sill Fjords

      • Joseph R. Buckley
      Pages 165-171

    5. Tidally-Forced Stratified Flow over Sills

      • T. S. Murty, M. C. Rasmussen
      Pages 173-180

    6. Geostrophic Fronts

      • Melvin E. Stern
      Pages 181-189

    10. Energetics of Mixing Processes in Fjords

      • T. A. McClimans
      Pages 215-218

    11. Mixing- and Exchange Processes in a Small Greenland Sill Fjord

      • Tue Kell Nielsen, Niels-Erik Ottesen Hansen
      Pages 219-225

    12. Mixing Experiments in Fjords

      • Erik Buch
      Pages 227-232

  4. Recent Observations in Knight Inlet

    2. Generation of Lee Waves Over the Sill in Knight Inlet

      • D. M. Farmer, J. Dungan Smith
      Pages 259-269
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Ocean Sciences, Sidney, Canada

    Howard J. Freeland, David M. Farmer

  • West Vancouver Laboratory, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, West Vancouver, Canada

    Colin D. Levings

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Fjord Oceanography

  • Editors: Howard J. Freeland, David M. Farmer, Colin D. Levings

  • Series Title: Nato Conference Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3105-6

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1980

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-40439-9Published: 01 April 1980

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-3107-0Published: 11 July 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4613-3105-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 716

  • Number of Illustrations: 53 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Physics, general

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