The Oceans Their Physics, Chemistry, and General Biology |
Preface |
Contents |
I. Introduction |
II. The Earth and the Ocean Basins |
III. Physical Properties of Sea Water |
IV. General Distribution of Temperature, Salinity, and Density |
• | The Heat Budget of the Earth as a Whole |
• | The Heat Budget of the Oceans |
• | Evaporation from the Sea |
• | Salinity and Temperature of the Surface Layer |
• | Theory of the Periodic Variations of Temperature at Subsurface Depths |
• | Distribution of Density |
• | Subsurface Distribution of Temperature and Salinity |
• | The Water Masses of the Oceans |
• | Basins |
• | Bibliography |
V. Theory of Distribution of Variables in the Sea |
VI. Chemistry of Sea Water |
VII. Organisms and the Composition of Sea Water |
VIII. The Sea as a Biological Environment |
IX. Populations of the Sea |
X. Observations and Collections at Sea |
XI. General Character of Ocean Currents |
XII. Statics and Kinematics |
XIII. Dynamics of Ocean Currents |
XIV. Waves and Tides |
XV. The Water Masses and Currents of the Oceans |
XVI. Phytoplankton in Relation to Physical-Chemical Properties of the Environment |
XVII. Animals in Relation to Physical-Chemical Properties of the Environment |
XVIII. Interrelations of Marine Organisms |
XIX. Organic Production in the Sea |
XX. Marine Sedimentation |
Tables for Computing Geopotential Distances between Isobaric Surfaces |
Subject Index |
Index of Names |
Fold-outs |