Coastal Oceanography

ISBN-13: 9781461566502 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 582 str.

Herman Gade

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Coastal and Shelf Sea Circulation.- On the Dynamics of Coastal Currents.- Observations of the Alaska Coastal Current.- Aspects of the Dynamics of the Residual Circulation of the Arabian Gulf.- Hydrodynamic Model of a Stratified Sea.- Three Dimensional Models of North Sea Circulation.- On the Circulation of the Stratified North Sea.- The State-of-the-Art in Coastal Ocean Modelling: A Numerical Model of Coastal Upwelling off Peru-Including Mixed Layer Dynamics.- The Currents in a Shallow Coastal Corner Region — the German Bight — Model, Measurements and Forecast.- Coastal Upwelling and Other Large Scale Coastal and Shelf Phenomena.- Upwellings and Kelvin Waves Generated by Transient Atmospheric Fronts.- Wind-Forced Shelf Break Upwelling.- A Seasonal Upwelling Event Observed off the West Coast of British Columbia, Canada.- Shelf Waves of Diurnal Period Along Vancouver Island.- Topographically Controlled Flow and Other Mesoscale Shelf Processes.- Topographic Influences on Coastal Circulation: A Review.- Topographically Induced Variability in the Baltic Sea.- An Additional Analysis of Inertial Oscillations on the Continental Shelf.- Coastal Upwelling, Cyclogenesis and Squid Fishing Near Cape Farewell, New Zealand.- Whirls in the Norwegian Coastal Current.- Observations of Instabilities of a Great Lakes Coastal Current.- Topographically Induced Small Scale Processes.- Stratified Flow over Sills.- Subcritical Rotating Channel Flow Across a Ridge.- Internal Gravity Waves in Sill Fjords: Vertical Modes, Ray Theory and Comparison with Observations.- Numerical Simulations of Internal Wave Generation in Sill Fjords.- Shelf and Inshore Water Interaction, Estuaries, Fjords.- Two-Year Observations of Coastal-Fjord Interactions in the Strait of Juan De Fuca.- Water Exchange Between the Sea and Complicated Fjords with Special Reference to the Baltic Water Exchange.- Shelf-Fjord Exchange on the West Coast of Vancouver Island.- Considerations of Coastally Forced Flow in a Branched Fjord.- Some Aspects of Circulation Along the Alaskan Beaufort Sea Coast.- Low Frequency Fluctuations in the Skagerrak.- Reduced Gravity Modelling of Outer Oslofjorden.- Turbulent Mising and Entrainment in Coastal Waters.- On Entrainment in Two-Layer Stratified Flow with Special Focus on an Arctic Sill-Fjord.- Salt Entrainment and Mixing Processes in an Under-Ice River Plume.- On Entrainment Observed in Laboratory and Field Experiments.