Subject Index 



Absorption of radiation, see radiation 

 Adjacent seas, subtropical, effects on deep sea 



circulation 690-3 

 Agulhas current 641-2 

 Acalinity 72 



distribution 73 



relation to calcium carbonate content 85 



and salinity 74 

 Antarctic circumpolar current, dynamic of 



673-5 

 Antarctic convergence zone, process in 679-682 

 Austausch (turbulent exchange coefficient) 92 



102, 103 

 Axis, of contraction 451 



of dilatation 451 



Baltic Sea, vertical structure of water masses 70 



see also North Sea 

 Barotropy coefficient 308, 341 

 Benquela current 565 

 Benard convection cell 199-201 

 Bjerknes circulation theorem 332 



oceanographic applications 486-492 

 Black Sea, vertical structure of water masses 69 

 Boiling point of sea water 44 

 Bosphorus and Dardanelles, current in 5 1 3-526 

 Bottom polar current 680-3 

 Bottom water in the oceans 149 

 Boundary surface between water bodies 451 -469 



Calcium carbonate in the sea, as function of 

 depth changes by chemical and biological 

 causes 85-7 

 saturation at surface of Atlantic Ocean 86 

 solubility 83-5 

 solution near bottom 86 

 Canyons 22-4 



Carbon dioxide, annual budget on Earth surface 

 81 

 dissociation constants 75-7 

 distribution on surface on South Atlantic 73 

 exchange with atmosphere 80 

 in deep places of oceans 77-80 

 in a section in subtropical part of South 



Atlantic 79 

 partial pressure 71 

 solubility 71 

 Chart datum 5, 9 



Charts of sea surface currents 557-8 

 Circulation, oceanic 

 basic principles 556-561 

 influence of meridional coast 579 et seq. 

 mean features in the Atlantic 694 

 theorem of Bjerknes 330-3 



oceanographic applications 486-492 

 thermo-haline 574-6 

 tropospheric of tropical and subtropical 



oceans 594-604 

 stratospheric 661-683 



theory, of Stommel and Munk 583-591 

 summary of individual theories 696-8 

 comprehensive theory 698-701 

 oceanic and atmospheric-, effects of polar-ice 

 conditions 279 

 Colour of the sea 60-4 

 Compensation currents 370 

 Computation of velocity of surface currents in 

 equatorial regions from wind data 

 552-5 

 Conductivity, thermal 50, 92, 95, 103 

 Continuity equation and divergence of current 



field 374-9 

 Convergence, antarctic, process in 669-672 

 internal structure 671 

 process at the polar boundary of 656-660 

 subtropical 144 

 stream line 359 

 point 363 



theory of disturbance and wave formation 

 658-9 

 Convection, autumn and winter, in polar regions 

 133-140 

 Benards cell 199-201 

 dynamic 101 

 heat exchange between ocean and atmosphere 



and 92 

 horizontal 105 

 thermo-haline 96-100 

 Continental slope 16 

 Conversion of relative in absolute topography 



of isobar surface 492-502 

 Critical discussion on dynamic computation of 



oceanographic data 504-8 

 Current from ships displacement 343 

 Current measurements, 

 from a ship 344 

 correction method 346 

 difference method 346 

 smoothing method 347 

 scientific use of 345-7 

 elemination of periodic components 351 

 Current, compensation 370 

 inertia 441-450 

 equatorial under 604-5 

 oceanic, in a homogeneous sea; theory of 

 382-450 



steady, without friction 383 

 drift 399^06 

 gradient 406-13 

 elementar 413-9 

 effects of coast on 426-8 

 oceanic effects, of bottom topography 

 428^30 



of friction 432-6 

 of varying latitude 420-4 

 in a non-homogeneous sea 474-512 

 and density field in a horizontal plane 

 476-9 



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