GOOD: The book has some obvious signs of wear, but the pages and covers are in good condition. A previous owner's name has been written on the first end page, but that is all the writing contained in the book. The cover has faded, but remains intact. The spine remains straight and intact.
The book contains an inserted Errata sheet.
Product Details
This is Volume 38 in the International Geophysics Series by Academic Press, and was released in 1987 and printed in England.
From the back cover: "Significant advances in both the theoretical and observational sides of physical oceanography have allowed more quantitative descriptions of the physical behaviour of the oceans to be derived. This book discusses the physical mechanisms and processes of the sea by first describing them and then accounting for them theoretically. Results from numerical models, laboratory experiments and remote measurements are also described, but this text does not attempt to be exhaustive. Its aim is rather to present the fundamentals with what is hoped to be a balanced perspective."
BRIEF CONTENTS
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Physical Oceanography: An Overview
2. Forcing Functions and Responses
3. Hydrodynamic Equations of the Sea
4. Thermodynamics and Energy Relations
5. Geophysical Fluid Dynamics I: Waves and Tides
6. Geophysical Fluid Dynamics II: Currents and Circulation
7. Acoustical Oceanography
8. Electromagnetics and the Sea
9. Optics of the Sea
Appendix One: Fundamental Physical Constants
Appendix Two: Astronomical and Geodetic Parameters
Appendix Three: Representative Values for Oceanic and Atmospheric Parameters
