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9780080363684

Seawater:its Composition,prop.+behavior

Seawater:its Composition,prop.+behavior

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  • ISBN-13: 9780080363684
  • ISBN: 0080363687
  • Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology Books

AUTHOR

Open University Staff

SUMMARY

A concise account of the special properties of water and the role of the oceans in the hydrological cycle. Explains the distribution of temperature and salinity in the oceans, and their combined influence on water density and movements. Behaviour of light and sound are also considered together with the applications of acoustics to oceanography. Further subjects examined include the composition and behaviour of dissolved constituents (minor and major ions, gases and nutrients) together with such topics as residence times and redox relationships. Concludes with a review of the involvement of seawater in global cycles, climatic change and the carbon dioxide problem.Open University Staff is the author of 'Seawater:its Composition,prop.+behavior' with ISBN 9780080363684 and ISBN 0080363687.

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