Subject Index 



Absorption of radiation (see Radiation) 

 Adiabatic lapse rate, air, 61 

 Adiabatic temperature changes, 14 

 Agulhas Stream, 187, 188, 205 

 Albedo : 



of earth's surface, 3 



of sea ice, 34, 60 

 Aleutian Current, 200 

 Angular velocity of earth's rotation, 93 

 Antarctic Circumpolar Current, 205-211 



illustrated, 206, 210 

 Antilles Current, 163, 165, 166 

 Arctic Front, 229, 232-234 



B 



Bathythermograph, 41 

 Benguela Current, 92, 185 

 Bering Strait, currents, 174 

 Bjerknes' theorem of circulation, 112 

 Bottom Water, 155 

 Antarctic, 156, 217 

 formation, 155, 156 

 in the Atlantic, 186, 211, 213 

 formation, 83, 84 

 North Atlantic, 156 

 formation, 156 

 table, 170 

 Boundary condition: 

 dynamic, 96 

 kinematic, 96 

 Boundary surface, inclination, 103, 104 

 Bowen ratio, 64 

 Brazil Current, 185 



California Current, 200-204 



annual variation of temperature, 78, 79 



illustrated, 78 

 comparison with Peru Current, 190 

 eddy coefficients, 24-26 

 illustrated, 203, 205 



Caribbean Sea, currents, 180, 181 



illustrated, 181 

 Central Water, 156 



distribution, 160, 162 

 illustrated, 158 



formation, 156, 157 



temperature and salinity, table, 161 

 illustrated, 159 

 Chlorinity, definition, 9 

 Circulation : 



Bjerknes' theorem of, 112 



deep-water, 211-217 



theorem of thermodynamic, 6, 150, 153 



thermal, 150-152 

 illustrated, 151 



thermohaline, 152, 153 



transverse, 184, 208 



illustrated, 184, 194, 208 

 Circumpolar Water, Antarctic: 



formation, 157, 214 



in Pacific sector, 215 



renewal of, 210 

 Climate: 



continental, 224 



influence of the oceans on, 224-226 



maritime, 224 

 Color of sea water, 31, 32 

 Compressibility, 8, 11, 15 

 Condensation of water vapor: 



importance to heat budget of atmos- 

 phere, 5-7, 229 



importance to heat budget of oceans, 49 

 Conduction of heat, importance to heat 



budget of the atmosphere, 5 

 Conductivity : 



electric, 8, 9, 17 



thermal, 13, 18 

 Convection of heat (see also Heat 

 exchange) : 



from interior of earth, 49, 50 



in the sea, 83, 89, 153 

 Convergence: 



Antarctic, 162, 207-209 

 sinking at, 84, 156 



Arctic, 84, 162 



caused by wind, 130-132 



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