TY - GEN digital ID - 131689272 TI - Dynamics of the Equatorial Ocean PY - 2018 SN - 9783662554760 PB - Berlin, Heidelberg Springer DB - UniCat KW - Geophysics KW - Hydrosphere KW - Meteorology. Climatology KW - Physical geography KW - klimatologie KW - fysische geografie KW - geofysica KW - oceanografie UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131689272 AB - This book is the first comprehensive introduction to the theory of equatorially-confined waves and currents in the ocean. Among the topics treated are inertial and shear instabilities, wave generation by coastal reflection, semiannual and annual cycles in the tropic sea, transient equatorial waves, vertically-propagating beams, equatorial Ekman layers, the Yoshida jet model, generation of coastal Kelvin waves from equatorial waves by reflection, Rossby solitary waves, and Kelvin frontogenesis. A series of appendices on midlatitude theories for waves, jets and wave reflections add further material to assist the reader in understanding the differences between the same phenomenon in the equatorial zone versus higher latitudes. ER -