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Highlights

  • ISBN13:9780521676809
  • ISBN10:0521676800
  • Publisher:Cambridge University Press
  • Language:English
  • Author:S A Thorpe
  • Binding:Paperback
  • SUPC: SDL128779149

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Brief Description

An introductory undergraduate textbook on ocean turbulence for courses in physical oceanography.

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This textbook provides an introduction to turbulent motion occurring naturally in the ocean on scales ranging from millimetres to hundreds of kilometres. It describes turbulence in the mixed boundary layers at the sea surface and seabed, turbulent motion in the density-stratified water between, and the energy sources that support and sustain ocean mixing. Little prior knowledge of physical oceanography is assumed. The text is supported by numerous figures, extensive further reading lists, and more than 50 exercises that are graded in difficulty. Detailed solutions to the exercises are available to instructors online at www.cambridge.org/9780521859486. This textbook is intended for undergraduate courses in physical oceanography, and all students interested in multidisciplinary aspects of how the ocean works, from the shoreline to the deep abyssal plains. It also forms a useful lead-in to the author's more advanced graduate textbook, The Turbulent Ocean (Cambridge University Press, 2005).

Review Quotes

1. '...well-written and carefully organized. It provides a concise and readable text for undergraduate and postgraduate course in oceanography. This book as excellent "cartoons" (sketches) conveying new ideas or concepts, photographs and illustrations throughout." - John Z. Shi, Environmental Earth Sciences

2. 'An Introduction to Ocean Turbulence by Steve Thorpe is the first book addressing the needs of instructors teaching introductory courses in ocean mixing. After initial explanations of turbulence fundamentals and techniques for measuring it in the ocean, the emphasis shifts to the processes producing the turbulence and how they in turn are generated and drive dissipation, diapycnal fluxes and dispersion. Copious illustrations from journal articles tie these discussions to current research and give students a clear path to reading current literature. By focusing on the energetics of ocean mixing, the final chapter puts the discussion into a global context. With this book, Professor Thorpe provides an invaluable aide to anyone teaching courses about ocean mixing to advanced undergraduates and graduate students, and I recommend it wholeheartedly.' - Professor Michael Gregg, University of Washington

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