SUBJECT INDEX 



853 



Density, air, table 44 

 Desert dust, 295 

 Diaphus iheta, 509 

 Diffusion, diffusivity 



estimation, 27 



Fick's law and coefficient, 34 



heats of, 32 



molecular, 43 



salt in water, 26 



thermal, of water, table 27 



water vapour in air, 44 

 Digital computer, 692 

 Dinofiagellates, 458, 460 

 Discovery Passage, 813 

 "Dishpan" studies, 89, 93, 99 

 Displacement current, 470 

 Distribution functions of light, 409 

 Diurnal 



illumination under water, 534 



vertical migration, 463, 499, 505 

 Dogfish, 541 

 Dolphin, 557 

 Doppler effect 



scattered radiation shift, 473 



ships encountering waves, 684 

 Dorsal light reaction, 464 

 Dover Straits, 608, 627 

 Downwelling irradiance, 407 

 Drag coefficient, 49, 109 



atmospheric stability, dependence on, 64 



determined from eddy correlations, 59 



determined from surface-tilt observa- 

 tions, 60 



determined from wind-profiles, 57 



fetch, effect of 60, 63 



rainfall, effect of, 66 



slicks, effects of, 65 



wind speed, dependence on, 61 

 Drogue, 687 

 Dust transport, 295 ff 

 Dye marker, 742, 743 

 Dynamics of ocean currents, 323 ff 

 Dynamic viscosity, table 27 



Earphones, 546 

 Earth 



eccentricity effect on sea -bed, 606 



rotation force, 193 

 Earthquakes 



causing tsunamis, 659 



frequencies overlapping sound, 476, 491 



submarine slumping, 662 

 Echo, 485, 487 



iceberg-detection, 498 



Echo-sounding and ranging, 495, 549, 685 

 Ecological importance of light, 456 

 Eddies 



air-sea interactions, 204, 210 



diffusion problems, 818 



drag coefficient. 59 



evaporation, 66 



transfer coefficient, 107 



turbulent transfer, 45 



viscosity, 49 

 Edge waves, 641, 656 

 Eels, 463 

 Ekman 



friction layer, 193, 372, 377 



theory of wind drift and gradient cur- 

 rents, 323 ff 



transport components, 340, 342 

 Elbe river, 811 

 Electrical 



charges of air, 307 



conductivity of sea-water, 28, 307 

 Electromagnetic 



flow meter, 811 



sound detectors, 491 



tape recorder, 545 

 Electromagnetic radiation other than light, 

 469 



Maxwell's equations, 469 



noise in sea, 474 



propagation, 470 ff 



sea-surface effects, 471 ff 



sea-water properties, 469 



transmission window, 470 

 "El Nino", 278 

 Elsasser radiation chart, 259 

 Ems, Hunte, Elbe, Eider river tides, 790 

 Energy distribution 



deep scattering layers, 536 



waves on sea surface, 567 

 Energy transmission within the sea, 397 {see 



also Light) 

 English Channel, 593, 594, 769, 772, 783, 816 

 Enthalpy, 7, 23, 25 

 Entropy, 7, 12 ff, 25 



Eolian materials, marine sediments, 298 ff 

 Epinephelus striatus, 562 

 Equation of state for sea-water, 4 

 Equations of motion of sea -water, 31 



field, 40 ff 



transformations of, 35 ff 



vertically integrated, 337 ff 

 Equator (ial) 



Atlantic exchange fluctuations, 225 ff 



barotropic flow across, 347 



