180 Appendix i 



k wave number 



I length of cable between towed electrodes 



My., My horizontal components of vertically integrated mass 

 transport per unit width 



p pressure 



R an artifice, coefficient of friction on the bottom of a 



homogeneous ocean, assuming a linear dependence on 

 velocity 



^ radius of curvature of a streamline 



r east- west dimension of a rectangular basin 



8 north-south dimension of wind system 



T transport per unit depth 



^ vertically integrated transport 



T-S the T-S diagram, with temperature as ordinate, salinity 

 as abscissa ; used in water-mass analysis 



U mean velocity, used to linearize inertial terms in the per- 



turbation theory 



u horizontal component of velocity in the x-direction 



V horizontal component of velocity in the y-direction 



X horizontal coordinate, usually meaning (in this book) 



directed eastward 

 y horizontal coordinate, usually meaning (in this book) 



directed northward 

 z vertical coordinate, directed upward 



SYMBOLS FROM THE GREEK ALPHABET 



a = 1/A 



fi meridional gradient of the Coriolis parameter 



y^ drag coefficient of wind on sea surface 



^ relative vorticity, vertical component 



A radius of deformation 



fi wavelength unit (microns) of radiation 



V meander frequency 

 p density of water 

 Pa density of air 



O- = 103 (p-1) 



<Tt a special measure of density, defined on p. 31 



