CONTENTS 



PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY 



Section I. Fundamentals ........ 



CH. 1. Physical Properties of Sea-Water by N. P. Fojonoff 

 The equilibrium thermodynamic state 

 Equation of state for sea- water 

 Entropy ..... 

 Chemical potential difference 

 The non-equilibrium state . 

 6. Other physical properties of sea-water 



CH. 2. The Equations of Motion of Sea-Water by Carl Eckart 



1. Introduction 



2. Thermodynamics 



3. Hydrodynamics . 



4. The irreversible processes 



5. Transformation of the equation 



6. The zeroth approximation . 



7. The first approximation 



8. Definitions related to convective motion 



9. The field equations .... 



Section II. Interchange of Properties between Sea and Air 



CH. 3. Small-Scale Interactions by E. L. Deacon and E. K. Webb 



1 . General considerations of transfer .... 



2. Momentum transfer and the wind-profile 



3. Drag coefficients of the sea surface .... 



4. Transfer of heat and water vapour .... 



CH. 4. Large-Scale Interactions by Joanne 8. Malkus 



Introduction 



How the whole system works 



Determination of air-sea fluxes 



Climatology of energy exchange and the global heat and water 



budgets .......■• 



5. Heat and water exchange and its role in tropical circulations 



6. Large-scale momentum relations ..... 



7. Exchange mechanisms and fluctuations 



8. Exchange fluctuations in mid-latitudes and long-period 

 interaction anomaUes 



9. Concluding remarks 



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