TY - BOOK AU - Dijkstra, A. Henk TI - Dynamical Oceanography SN - 9783540763758 AV - GC228.5 PY - 2008/// PB - Springer (India) Private Limited, New Delhi N1 - PART I Introduction 1. A first Impression 2. Present Ocean Circulation 3. Mathematical Description 4. Vorticity PART- II Midlatitude circulation 5. Wind-Driven Circulation 6. Western Intensification 7. Free Waves 8. Stratification 9. Adjustment 10. Stability Of Zonal Flows PART- III Equatorial circulation 11. Equatorial Ocean Circulation 12. Dynamics of Enso PART- IV Planetary circulation 13. Thermocline Problem 14. Antarctic Circumpolar Current 15. Arctic Ocean Circulation 16. Thermohaline Circulation N2 - This textbook provides a mathematical introduction to the theory of large-scale ocean circulation and is accessible for readers with an elementary knowledge of mathematics and physics, including continuum mechanics and solution methods for ordinary differential equations ER -