The fifth edition of Essentials of Oceanography has been revised with the same basic goals as previous editions. It is designed for a course in oceanography taught to students with no formal background in mathematics or science.
Underwater scientists use sound as the premier tool to determine the detailed characteristics of physical and biological bodies and processes at sea. This is a comprehensive and accessible textbook on ocean acoustics and acoustical oceanography. Chapters 1-9 provide the basic tools of ocean acoustics. The following fifteen chapters are written by many of the world's most successful ocean resear…
The time-varying aspect of the ocean makes descriptive oceanography a four-dimensional problem, with spatial scales from 10'7 to 10'-3 m and energy cascading down over ten orders of magnitude. In-situ sensing alone is ultimately unable to provide a sufficient description. The ocean is fundamentally opaque to electromagnetic radiation, but this limitation on information transfer is largely commp…
Introductory Dynamical Oceanography' 2nd ed provides an introduction to Dynamical Physical Oceanography at a level suitable for senior year undergraduate students in the sciences and for graduate students entering oceanography. It aims to present the basic objectives, procedures and successes and to state some of the present limitations of dynamical oceanography and its relations to descriptive…
Introduction 4 SI) PHYSICAL JUSTICE Edition Independent opinion of the previous edition "This new third edition will continue to be standardized against which introductory texts will be measured throughout the new decade ... It will still be a book I will give to new employees and friends. friends in answering the question what do physical oceanographers do and why? "JOURNAL OF CANADIAN OF FISH…
The ocean is transparent to sound and nearly opaque to light. Slight irregularities within the ocean cause sound fluctuations, and thus set limits on the many uses of sound in the ocean, similar to the limits imposed by the atmosphere on ground-based telescopes. This book provides the hrst systematic attempt to connect the known structure of the ocean volume with experimental results in long-ra…
Data Analysis Methods in Physical Oceanography is a practical refer ence guide to established and modern data analysis techniques in earth and ocean sciences. Intended for both students and established scien tists, the five major chapters of the book cover data acquisition and recording, data processing and presentation, statistical methods and error handling, analysis of spatial data fields, a…
This book presents the R software environment as a key tool for oceanographic computations and provides a rationale for usng R instead of more widely-used tools of the fields such as MATLAB. Kelley provides a general introduction to R before introducing the oce package. This package greatly simplifies oceanographic analysis by handling the details of discipline specific file formats, calculatio…
The National Academy of Sciences Is a private, nonprofit, se f-perpetuating society of distinguished scholars enpaped in scientific and engineering research, dedicated to the furtherance of science and technology and to their use for the general welfare. Upon the authority of the charter granted to it by the Congress in 1863, the Academy has a mandate that reguires it to advise the federal gove…
Various allogeneic responses have been characterized in stony corals. The responses were thought to be genetically control. However, very little is known about the genetic mechanism of allorecognition in corals. Therefore, the contact reaction between parent-offspring and between siblings of the coral Pocillopora damicornis has been studied. Three types of contact reactions were observed: betwe…