860 



SUBJECT INDEX 



Routing of ships, 683 



Salinity, salt 



airborne particles, 308 



conservation equation, 33 



diffusion coefficient, 26 



freezing point depression, 826 



gradient, 26 



rain, 311 



sea-level effects, 592 



sound effects, 484 



thermodynamic effects, 4 

 Samoa, 659 



San Clemente Island, 650 

 San Diego, 534, 615, 815 

 San Francisco, 614 

 Sargasso Sea. 283 

 Savin o-Angstrom formula, 103 

 Scalar irradiance, 399, 445 

 Scandinavia, storms distantly recorded, 716 

 Scattering, light, 402 



measuring instrument, 436 

 Sciaenidae, 558 



sound 



deep layers, 464, 499 

 groups, 500, 501 

 marine organisms, 498 

 Scripps Institution, 187, 188, 317 

 Sculpins, 559 

 Sea and air 



feed-back mechanism, 278 



long -period interaction variations, 272 ff 



radiative heat exchange, 72 

 Sea-bed, 480, 482 



photography, 495 



sound back-scatter, 487 



velocity profile, 815 

 "Sea canary", 557 

 Sea-drum, 558 

 Sea-horses, 558 

 Sea-ice physics, 826 



brine, 828 



crystals, 827 



elastic parameters, 831 ff 



electrical properties, 834 



glacial eustasy, 595 



growth and disintegration, 834 ff 



mechanical properties, 829 



pack-ice, 835 



structural theory and properties, 835 ff 



thermal properties, 832 ff 



visco -elastic properties, 832 

 Sea-level 



analysis of observations, 601 ff 



Sea-level — continued 



climatological factors of variation, 593 



day-to-day variation, 614 



determination of mean, 590 ff 



eustatic changes, 605 ff, 607 



geophysical implications of long-term 

 variation, 605 ff 



ice coverage effects, 595 



International Geophysical Year, 590 



long-term variations in sea-level, 590 



oceanographic factors of variation, 592 



oceanographic levelling, 607 ff 



Permanent Service for Mean, 591 



pole tide effects, 606 



secular variations, 601 ff, table 602 



steric, 592 



sunspot cycle, 608 



tidal bench-mark distance from earth's 

 centre, 596 



tidal charts, 773 ff 



tidal constituents in variation, table 591 



variation causes, 592 ff 

 Sea-robins, 558, 559, 562 

 Sea-water 



adiabatic pressure change, 17 



clarity meter, 447 



compression, 10 



cooling, 17, 826 



cool surface skin, 71 



electrical conductivity, 28, 470 



electromagnetic properties, 470 



equation of state, 8 ff 



gases content, table 313 



global budget, 144 ff 



heat and salt fluxes, 26 



heat of mixing, 24 



interchange of properties with air, 43 ff 



salinity, 17, 826 



specific heat, 14 



steric changes, 592 



thermal expansion coefficient, table 12 

 Secchi disk, 455 

 Seiching, 60, 658 

 Seismographs, 714 

 Sergestes, prawn, 463 

 Seriola quinqueradiata, 551 

 Sexual significance of sounds, 558 

 Shallow water 



ripples, 735 



sound scattering layer, 503 



tides, 767 

 Sharks, 541, 550 

 Shearing stress, 107, 108 

 Shelf waves, 651 ff 



