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SUBJECT INDEX 



Myctophids, 509 

 Myctophum punctatum, 460 

 Myoxocephalus, 559 

 Mysticetes, 553, 560 



Nassau grouper, 562 

 Nautiltis cephalopod, 533 

 Neolatus tripes, 511 

 Neon, 313, 314 

 Nephelometer 



recording polar, 438 



spectro -hydro, 437 

 Neutral wind-profile, 49 

 Neuwerk shoals, 58 

 New England, 534 

 Newlyn, 594 

 Nitrogen, 314 

 Noise 



electromagnetic in sea, 474 



fish, 490, 550 



natural geomagnetic spectrum, 474 



sea spectrum, 489, 490 

 Non-equilibrium state, 22 

 Non-neutral wind-profile, 20 

 Nordcaper whale, 556 

 North Atlantic Ocean, 8, 118 



currents, 142 



deep scattering layers, 506, 534 



recent oceanic warming, 115 



secular changes, 280 



tides, 784 

 Northern Hemisphere ocean basins, 124 

 "North Pole 4" station, 813 

 North Sea, 8, 58, 593, 594, 613. 621, 636, 

 773, 774, 783, 784, 785, 789, 792 ff, 

 798, 816, 821 

 Norwegian Sea, 549 

 Nova Scotia, 526 

 Nuclear explosions, atmospheric dust, 297 



Oceanography 



descriptive 446 



levelling, 607 ff 

 Oceans: see also under their names 



atmospheric heat and water budgets, 126ff 



boundaries, 344 ff 



currents as heat transporters, 123 



currents, magnitudes of forces, 329 



storage term, 165 



stratification, 37 



surface stress determinations, table 189 



turbulence, 35 



volume, total, 313 



water balance- table 137 



Oceans — continued 



waves: see under Long ocean waves, 

 Waves, Wind waves 



Odontocetes, 553, 554, 556, 560 

 Okeechobee Lake, 639 

 Opsanus tau, 554, 558, 559, 562 

 Optical properties: see under Light 

 "Order" of sound propagation, 482 

 Osmotic pressure, 19 

 Ostariophysan fishes, 561 

 Oxygen, 314 



Pacific Ocean, 8 



cumulonimbus clouds 96 



desert dust, 295 



geostrophic transport, 346 



northwest currents, 143 



quartz sediments, 299 



shearing stress maps, 181 



sound scatterers, 507 



southwest current; 123 



trade trajectory momentum budget, 192 



weather stations. 148 

 Pack-ice, 835 

 Pago Pago, 659 

 Paleometeorology, 295 

 Palinuru^ vulgaris, 552 

 Panulirus argus, 552, 556, 559 

 Panulirus interruptus, 560 

 Path function of radiance, 405 

 Periodogram for wave analysis, 692 

 Persian Gulf, 778 

 Peruvian Current, 118, 123 

 Phosphorescence: see Bioluminescence 

 Phosphorescent Bay, 458 

 Photography 



sea bottom, 495 



soiind scatterers, 510 ff 

 Photokinesis, 456, 464 

 Photometers. 456 

 Photoperiodism, 456 

 Photosynthesis, 448, 456 

 Phototaxis, 456. 464 

 Phototropism, 456, 464 

 Physeter, 557 



Physical properties of sea -water, 3 

 Physics of sea-ice : see Sea-ice 

 Physoclistous swim-bladders, 535 

 Piezoelectric sovmd detectors, 491 

 Pinnipeds, 551 

 Pistol prawn, 542 

 Pitching of ships, 683 

 Planetary waves, 380 

 Plankters, 512 



