TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brink,Kenneth H.
TI  - Physical Oceanography of Continental Shelves
SN  - 9780691236452
AV  - GC85 .B75 2023
U1  - 551.46/8 23/eng20230323
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Continental shelf
KW  - Continental slopes
KW  - Continental margins
KW  - Physical oceanography
KW  - Plateau continental
KW  - Pentes continentales
KW  - Marges continentales
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "This book is intended as a graduate-level textbook and professional reference on the physical oceanography of the continental shelf and slope. Defined as water deeper than about three meters and shallower than a kilometer, this region of the ocean is important for a variety of scientific and practical reasons, from its high biological productivity and role in distributing outflows from the continents to its heavy usage in transportation and recreation. In recent years, research on the coastal ocean has expanded as the study of both short- and long-term anthropogenic change has become increasingly urgent. Yet there is no comprehensive treatment of the dynamics of this critical region. The book covers a range of topics involving currents and water properties, including turbulent boundary layers, wind driving, tides, buoyancy currents, waves, instabilities, and connections with the open, deep ocean. Brink's approach-informed by over a decade teaching the corresponding course in Woods Hole/MIT's joint program-centers on the dynamics of particular processes and combinations of processes, but also includes copious observational examples. Intended to be accessible to graduate students in a range of oceanographic specialties, the book assumes 2-3 years of university-level math and at least an introductory course in quantitative physical oceanography"--
ER  -