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Oceanography of the British Columbia Coast
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Thomas et al. as mentioned in this paper described the physical aspects of the sea as exemplified by the Pacific Ocean and the contiguous waters of the British Columbia coast, and attempted to elucidate the nature of oceanic motions and to relate them to everyday experience for the general interest of the casual reader and for the practical benefit of the professional mariner, scientist, or engineer.Abstract:
THOMSON, R.E. 1981. Oceanography of the British Columbia coast. Can. Spec. Publ. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 56: 291p. This book deals with the physical aspects of the sea as exemplified by the Pacific Ocean and the contiguous waters of the British Columbia coast. Although principally devoted to waves, currents, and tides, the book spans a broad spectrum of topics ranging from meteorology and marine biology to past and present marine geology. It attempts to elucidate the nature of oceanic motions and to relate them to everyday experience for the general interest of the casual reader and for the practical benefit of the professional mariner, scientist, or engineer.read more
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Climate change in the Fraser River watershed: flow and temperature projections
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Temporal and spatial occurrence of thin phytoplankton layers in relation to physical processes
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‘What's larvae got to do with it?’ Disparate patterns of post‐glacial population structure in two benthic marine gastropods with identical dispersal potential
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On the generation of surface waves by shear flows
TL;DR: In this paper, an approximate solution to the boundary value problem is developed for a logarithmic profile and the corresponding spectral distribution of the energy transfer coefficient calculated as a function of wave speed.
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Waves in the ocean
TL;DR: In this article, the generation and dissipation of wave-current interactions were studied. But the authors focused on the critical layer absorption and stability of parallel flows. And they used statistical and probabilistic methods.
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On the generation of waves by turbulent wind
TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that the most prominent waves are ripples of wavelength λcr = 1·7 cm, corresponding to the minimum phase velocity c = (4gT/ρ)1/4 and moving in directions cos-1(c/Uc) to that of the mean wind, where Uc is the "convection velocity" of the surface pressure fluctuations of length scale λ cr or approximately the average wind speed at a height λCr above the surface.