Dynamics of the Equatorial Ocean
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
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Dynamics of the Equatorial Ocean
Dynamics of the Equatorial Ocean
John P. Boyd
Dynamics of the Equatorial Ocean
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John P. Boyd CLaSP Department University of Michigan College of Engineering Ann Arbor, MI USA
ISBN 978-3-662-55474-6 ISBN 978-3-662-55476-0 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-55476-0
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Preface
Writing projects was always an agony for me … I always tried to live up to Leo Szilard’s commandment, ‘don’t lie if you don’t have to do’. I had to. I filled up pages with words and plans I knew I would not follow. When I go home from my laboratory in the next afternoon, I often do not know what I am going to do the next day. I expect to think that up during the night. How could I tell then, what I would do a year hence? —Albert Szent-Gyorgi (1893–1986), Nobel Laureate, quoted on pg. 382 of Discovering by Robert S. Root-Bernstein [1]
This book is literature, not journalism. Although it is unusual to apply
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