Ocean Circulation. Wind-Driven and Thermohaline Processes
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Author(s): R. X. Huang
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521852289
Format: hardback
791pp
Price: £50.00, $85.00, `
Review Date: 26 January 2010
Review: In recent years research into the interaction between ocean circulation and climate change has come to the forefront. The circulation of the ocean is driven and regulated by interaction with the atmosphere (wind), by tidal dissipation, and by regional differences in temperature and salinity (and hence density) of the oceans. This advanced textbook deals with the thermohaline-driven circulation and its energetics. It provides: an introduction to the dynamics and thermodynamics of the ocean general circulation, including the thermodynamics of seawater and the energetics of the ocean circulation; an exhaustive theory of wind-driven circulation; thermohaline circulation, including water mass formation/erosion, deep circulation and the hydrological cycle; and the interaction between the wind-driven and thermohaline circulation.