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Introduction to the physical and biological oceanography of shelf seas
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| Lenguaje: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction to the shelf seas
- Physical forcing of the shelf seas: what drives the motion of ocean?
- Response to forcing: the governing equations and some basic solutions
- Waves, turbulent motions and mixing
- Life in the shelf seas
- Seasonal stratification and the spring bloom
- Interior mixing and phytoplankton survival in stratified environments
- Tidal mixing fronts: their location, dynamics and biological significance
- Regions of freshwater influence (ROFIs)
- The shelf edge system
- Future challenges in shelf seas.