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au, debkennedy@iprimus com, i Deborah Jane Kennedy. "Ocean Views : An investigation into human-ocean relations". Murdoch University, 2007. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20080523.120432.
Pełny tekst źródłaBos, Machiel Simon. "Ocean tide loading using improved ocean tide models". Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.343980.
Pełny tekst źródłaKennedy, Deborah Jane. "Ocean views: an investigation into human-ocean relations". Thesis, Kennedy, Deborah Jane (2007) Ocean views: an investigation into human-ocean relations. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2007. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/123/.
Pełny tekst źródłaKennedy, Deborah Jane. "Ocean views : an investigation into human-ocean relations /". Kennedy, Deborah Jane (2007) Ocean views: an investigation into human-ocean relations. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2007. http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/123/.
Pełny tekst źródłaКравченко, Наталія Олександрівна, Наталия Александровна Кравченко, Nataliia Oleksandrivna Kravchenko i I. Bodnar. "Ocean energy". Thesis, Видавництво СумДУ, 2011. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/13490.
Pełny tekst źródłaDusek, Daniel P. "Ocean mixed layer biological response to transient ocean events". Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1997. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA340990.
Pełny tekst źródła"September 1997." Thesis advisor(s): Roland W. Garwood. Includes bibliographical references (p. 61-63). Also available online.
Bednarsek, Nina. "Vulnerability of Southern ocean pteropods to anthropogenic ocean acidification". Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.533722.
Pełny tekst źródłaKennerson, Elliott Doran. "Ocean Pictures the construction of the ocean on film /". Thesis, Montana State University, 2008. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2008/kennerson/KennersonE1208.pdf.
Pełny tekst źródłaTypescript. Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Ronald Tobias. Sealed Off is a DVD accompanying the thesis. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 31-35).
Elfadli, Kasem. "Indian Ocean Dipole impacts on northwestern Indian Ocean climate variability". Thesis, University of Southampton, 2015. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/396586/.
Pełny tekst źródłaHermes, Juliet C. "Ocean model diagnosis of variability in the South Indian Ocean". Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8649.
Pełny tekst źródłaEvidence exists that sea surface temperature (SST) variability in the South Indian Ocean may significantly influence weather and climate patterns in the southern African region. SST, in tum, can be influenced by variability in ocean fluxes, observations of which are limited in the South Indian Ocean and it is necessary to augment them with estimates derived from models. Two sets of variability in this region are examined in this thesis. The first concerns the large-scale interannual variability of the oceans neighbouring South Africa and the second, inter-ocean fluxes south of Africa on meso-through to interannual timescales. In terms of the former, a global ocean model forced with 50 years of NCEP (National Centre for Environmental Prediction) re-analyses winds and heat fluxes, has been used to investigate the evolution and forcing of interannual SST variability in the South Indian Ocean and co-variability patterns in the South Atlantic. Secondly, an eddy- permitting model is used to investigate volume, heat and salt fluxes in the oceanic region south of Africa and the effect of variations in the strength of wind forcing. Interannual dipole-like SST variability in the South Indian and South Atlantic Oceans were realistically simulated using the global ocean model, ORCA2. The model results imply that there are connections between large-scale modulations of the midlatitude atmospheric circulation of the Southern Hemisphere and co-evolving SST variability in the South Atlantic and South Indian Oceans. The atmospheric variability results in an increase (decrease) in strength of the anticyclonic wind fields over each ocean during positive (negative) dipole events. The resulting wind anomalies lead to changes in surface heat fluxes, short wave radiation, meridional Ekman heat transport and upwelling, all of which contribute to the evolution of these SST dipole patterns. Evidence is found of links between these dipole patterns and the Antarctic Oscillation and ENSO (El Niño Southern Oscillation).
Flaviani, Flavia. "Microbial biodiversity in the southern Indian Ocean and Southern Ocean". Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/25058.
Pełny tekst źródłaHall, Nicholas Martin Jerome. "Recirculating ocean gyres". Thesis, Imperial College London, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/46326.
Pełny tekst źródłaЗолотова, Світлана Григорівна, Светлана Григорьевна Золотова, Svitlana Hryhorivna Zolotova i V. V. Kharchenko. "Blue ocean strategy". Thesis, Вид-во СумДУ, 2011. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/21963.
Pełny tekst źródłaOrtiz, Molly Kathleen. "Whether the Ocean". The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1587128135641715.
Pełny tekst źródłaWu, Pao-Kun. "Cloud effects on ocean mixed layer in the northeast Pacific Ocean". Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/28030.
Pełny tekst źródłaZanowski, Hannah Marietta. "The Influence of Antarctic Open-Ocean Polynyas on the Abyssal Ocean". Thesis, Princeton University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10248291.
Pełny tekst źródłaIn the mid-1970s, an enormous open-ocean polynya developed in the Weddell Sea. Since the Weddell Polynya's occurrence, no polynya of similar size or duration has been observed in the region. A polynya of this magnitude could significantly affect global abyssal ocean properties via increased Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) formation and large Weddell Sea water mass property perturbations. However, the scarcity of 1970s Weddell Sea observations, coupled with the sparseness of abyssal ocean observations, make it difficult to study this phenomenon's oceanic impact without models. This dissertation examines the influence of Weddell Polynyas on abyssal ocean water mass properties and circulation using the GFDL CM2G coupled climate model.
Abyssal ocean temperature, salinity, and water mass changes resulting from Weddell Polynyas are quantified in CM2G and compared to observations. The model polynyas initially cool the abyssal Southern Ocean and South Atlantic, but 2-3 decades after polynya cessation the same regions warm as they relax toward their mean state. Composites of multiple, spontaneously-occurring polynyas in CM2G reveal that up to 10% of recently observed warming in the abyssal Southern Ocean could be the result of the 1970s Weddell Polynya recovery.
Weddell Polynya transport mechanisms are also investigated. Polynya signal transport is governed by two processes acting on different timescales and spreading at different rates: 1) topographic and planetary waves that act on interannual-to-decadal timescales, and 2) advection that acts on decadal-to-centennial timescales. Both mechanisms generate property changes on isobaths. Despite different spreading rates, the advective and wave signals act contemporaneously in many Southern Hemisphere abyssal basins. The combined effect and relative magnitude of the two signals dictates the prevailing property changes.
During Weddell Polynyas, vigorous exchange occurs between the surface and deep waters, resulting in increased abyssal ventilation. In climate models, ideal age tracer is often used to investigate oceanic ventilation. This tracer suffers from several flaws that detract from its suitability as a ventilation diagnostic. We develop a new tracer, ?-age, that rectifies some of ideal age's problematic aspects and examine its utility in an offline tracer model.
Zhang, Yuan. "An observational study of atmosphere-ocean interactions in the northern oceans on interannual and interdecadal time-scale /". Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10038.
Pełny tekst źródłaO'Carroll, Rosemarie Helen. "An analysis of eddy resolving global ocean models in the Southern Ocean". Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/27956.
Pełny tekst źródłaComparisons between the two model runs, a half degree resolution and a quarter degree resolution of the Semtner-Chervin eddy-resolving global ocean model, and the Hydrographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean observations are conducted by analyzing horizontal and vertical sections. The quarter degree model, employing a Mercator grid, was interpolated forward from the half degree model initialization. For the last three years of the model run time, the resolution was improved to 0.25 deg on average and ECMWF winds were used. Also, no deep restoring in the last three years is introduced into the model. Another difference between the half degree model and the quarter degree model is that in the latter, the bathymetry is unsmoothed, so that not only is the resolution finer, the topography is more realistic. The model is shown to produce very realistic circulation and temperature and salinity distributions. Volume transport and meridional volume and heat transports are also calculated. The quarter degree model shows marked improvement over the half degree model although both models have salinities to the south and near the surface which are higher than those observed. This could be due to errors in surface flux parameterizations
Mawren, Daneeja. "Upper ocean variability and tropical cyclones in the South West Indian Ocean". Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/29219.
Pełny tekst źródłaDas, Pritha School of Methematics UNSW. "Modelling of ocean tides". Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Methematics, 1998. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/19038.
Pełny tekst źródłaMukhtasor. "Probabilistic ocean outfall design". Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape17/PQDD_0012/MQ34210.pdf.
Pełny tekst źródłaDougherty, Martin Eugene. "Ocean bottom seismic scattering". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/52938.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-301).
by Martin Eugene Dougherty.
Ph.D.
Abernathey, Ryan (Ryan Patrick). "Mixing by ocean eddies". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70772.
Pełny tekst źródłaCataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-175).
Mesoscale eddies mix and transport tracers such as heat and potential vorticity laterally in the ocean. While this transport plays an important role in the climate system, especially in the Southern Ocean, we lack a, comprehensive understanding of what sets mixing rates. This thesis seeks to advance this understanding through three related studies. First, mixing rates are diagnosed from an eddy-resolving state estimate of the Southern Ocean, revealing a meridional cross-section of effective diffusivity shaped by the interplay between eddy propagation and mean flow. Effective diffusivity diagnostics are then applied to quantify surface mixing rates globally, using a, kinematic model with velocities derived from satellite observations; the diagnosed mixing rates show a rich spatial structure, with especially strong mixing in the tropics and western-boundary-current regions. Finally, an idealized numerical model of the Southern Ocean is analyzed, focusing on the response to changes in win( stress. The sensitivity of the meridional overturning circulation to the wind changes demonstrates the importance of properly capturing eddy mixing rates for large-scale climate problems.
by Ryan Abernathey.
Ph.D.
Petrenko, R. "Let‘s clean the ocean!" Thesis, Sumy State University, 2016. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/45877.
Pełny tekst źródłaButton, Peter. "Models for ocean waves". Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14299.
Pełny tekst źródłaOcean waves represent an important design factor in many coastal engineering applications. Although extreme wave height is usually considered the single most important of these factors there are other important aspects that require consideration. These include the probability distribution of wave heights, the seasonal variation and the persistence, or duration, of calm and storm periods. If one is primarily interested in extreme wave height then it is possible to restrict one's attention to events which are sufficiently separated in time to be effectively independently (and possibly even identically) distributed. However the independence assumption is not tenable for the description of many other aspects of wave height behaviour, such as the persistence of calm periods. For this one has to take account of the serial correlation structure of observed wave heights, the seasonal behaviour of the important statistics, such as mean and standard deviation, and in fact the entire seasonal probability distribution of wave heights. In other words the observations have to be regarded as a time series.
Masetti, Sara. "The Ocean in Between". Thesis, University of North Texas, 2013. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500079/.
Pełny tekst źródłaCheon, Woo Geunn. "Impact of the Southern ocean winds on sea-ice - ocean interaction and its associated global ocean circulation in a warming world". [College Station, Tex. : Texas A&M University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-3029.
Pełny tekst źródłaRana, Haris Sarwar. "Indian Ocean surface circulations and their connection to Indian Ocean dipole, identified from Ocean Surface Currents Analysis Real Time (OSCAR) data". Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2008. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA483452.
Pełny tekst źródłaThesis Advisor(s): Chu, Peter C. "June 2008." Description based on title screen as viewed on August 26, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 67-71). Also available in print.
Juhls, Bennet [Verfasser]. "Land-Ocean Interactions in Arctic Coastal Waters: Ocean Colour Remote Sensing and Current Carbon Fluxes to the Arctic Ocean / Bennet Juhls". Berlin : Freie Universität Berlin, 2021. http://d-nb.info/1225741637/34.
Pełny tekst źródłaFrench, Megan. "Silica : cycling in the Southern Ocean & atmospheric inputs to the global ocean". Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.501824.
Pełny tekst źródłaTrampp, David A. "Upper Ocean Characteristics in the Tropical Indian Ocean from AXBT and AXCTD Measurements". Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/6882.
Pełny tekst źródłaGreen, Rebecca E. (Rebecca Erin) 1972. "Scale closure in upper ocean optical properties : from single particles to ocean color". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/29058.
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Predictions of chlorophyll concentration from satellite ocean color are an indicator of phytoplankton primary productivity, with implications for foodweb structure, fisheries, and the global carbon cycle. Current models describing the relationship between optical properties and chlorophyll do not account for much of the optical variability observed in natural waters, because of the presence of seawater constituents that do not covary with phytoplankton pigment concentration. In an attempt to better understand variability in these models, the contributions of seawater constituents to ocean optical properties were investigated. A combination of Mie theory and flow cytometry was used to determine the diameter, complex refractive index (n+n'i), and optical cross-sections of individual particles, based on a method developed in the laboratory using phytoplankton cultures. Individual particle measurements were used to interpret variability in concurrently measured bulk optical properties in New England continental shelf waters in two seasons. The summed contribution to scattering of individual particles in the size range of 0.1-50 Cpm accounted for approximately the entire scattering coefficient measured independently using bulk methods. In surface waters in both seasons, the large diameters and n' of eukaryotic phytoplankton caused them to be the main particle contributors to both absorption and scattering. Minerals were the main contributor to backscattering, bb, in the spring, whereas in the summer both minerals and detritus contributed to bb. Synechococcus and heterotrophic bacteria were less important optically, contributing <11% each to attenuation in either season.
(cont.) The role of seawater constituents in determining remote sensing reflectance, Rrs, was determined using radiative transfer theory. Seasonal differences in the spectral shape of Rrs were contributed to approximately equally by eukaryotic phytoplankton absorption, dissolved absorption, and non-phytoplankton bb. A higher inverse wavelength dependence of non-phytoplankton bb in the summer was caused by the contribution of small detritus, in contrast to larger minerals in the spring. Measurements of bb and Rrs were compared to values from bio-optical models based on chlorophyll concentration. Differences in measured and modeled bb and Rrs were caused by higher dissolved absorption and higher backscattering efficiencies and scattering by non-phytoplankton than were assumed by the model.
by Rebecca E. Green.
Ph.D.
Majodina, Mark. "The structure of the upper ocean, atmosphere and heat fluxes - Tropical Indian Ocean". Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18489.
Pełny tekst źródłaHague, Mark. "Ice - ocean - atmosphere interactions in the Southern Ocean and implications for phytoplankton phenology". Doctoral thesis, Faculty of Science, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/33708.
Pełny tekst źródłaXiradakis, Pavlos. "The refractive effects of laser propagation through the ocean and within the ocean". Thesis, Monterey, California : Naval Postgraduate School, 2009. http://edocs.nps.edu/npspubs/scholarly/theses/2009/Dec/09Dec%5FXiradakis.pdf.
Pełny tekst źródłaThesis Advisor(s): Walters, Donald. Second Reader: Borden, Brett. "December 2009." Description based on title screen as viewed on January 27, 2010. Author(s) subject terms: Ocean waves, Laser Scattering, Absorption, Refraction. Includes bibliographical references (p. 55). Also available in print.
DiMaggio, Dominic. "The role and variability of ocean heat content in the Arctic Ocean: 1948–2009". Thesis, Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/42611.
Pełny tekst źródłaThe observed rate of sea ice cover decline in the Arctic for the past decades is faster than those projected by the recent Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5). I hypothesize that a critical source of energy in the Arctic Ocean, heat content accumulating below the surface mixed layer and above the halocline, has been increasing in magnitude and area, and may be contributing to the recent decline in the ice cover. Consistent with observations, model results from a subset of the Regional Arctic System Model (RASM) indicate that heat has been stored between the mixed layer and the halocline, and that it has increased during the period of 1948 to 2009. Ongoing analyses show that the total amount and rate of increase of heat content has been largest in the western Arctic, and there is a causal relationship between the accumulation of heat content and the reduction of sea ice volume. Future studies involving new observations of physical processes and feedbacks in the western Arctic Ocean, and higher resolution and coupled climate models with improved representation of such processes and feedbacks are needed to advance understanding, realistic modeling, and improved prediction of the Arctic System and its variability and change.
Rubython, Katie E. "Ocean variability in the Drake Passage and Scotia Sea region of the southern ocean". Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.365168.
Pełny tekst źródłaGreely, Teresa. "Ocean Literacy and Reasoning About Ocean Issues: The Influence of Content, Experience and Morality". [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2008. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0002696.
Pełny tekst źródłaLong, Erik Christopher. "An analysis of an eddy-resolving global ocean model in the tropical Indian Ocean". Thesis, Monterey, California : Naval Postgraduate School, 1990. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA241009.
Pełny tekst źródłaThesis Advisor(s): Semtner, Albert J. Jr. Second Reader: Batteen, Mary L. "September 1990." Description based on title screen as viewed on March 19, 2010. DTIC Descriptors: Climatology, Currents, Cycles, East (Direction), Equations, Equatorial Regions, Global, Heat Flux, Horizontal Orientation, Indian Ocean, Invariance, Mass, Mean, Models, Monsoons, Ocean Currents, Ocean Models, Resolution, Seasonal Variations, Simulation, Surface Temperature, Temperature, Tropical Regions, Velocity, West (Direction), Wind, Wind Stress. DTIC Identifier(s): Leeuwin Current. Author(s) subject terms: Oceanographic Numerical Modeling, Indian Ocean, Ocean General Circulation Model, Eddy-Resolving, Somali Current, Tropical, Equitorial. Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-143). Also available in print.
Montoli, Enea Marco <1987>. "Interactions between ice shelves and ocean in Antarctica : grounding line dynamics and ocean properties". Doctoral thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/14085.
Pełny tekst źródłaBanerjee, S. "Ocean energy assessment : an integrated methodology". Thesis, Coventry University, 2011. http://curve.coventry.ac.uk/open/items/16196d0d-e671-489a-ba71-f20cdb6c8df3/1.
Pełny tekst źródłaBennett, Sara L. "Where three oceans meet the Algulhas retroflection region /". Woods Hole, Mass. : Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1988. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/19285078.html.
Pełny tekst źródła"Funding was provided by the Office of Naval Research through contract Numbers N00014-84-C-0134, N00014-85-C-0001, and N00014-87-K-0001." "October 1988." Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-367).
Corell, Hanna. "Applications of ocean transport modelling". Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Meteorologiska institutionen (MISU), 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-75344.
Pełny tekst źródłaAt the time of the doctoral defense, the following papers were unpublished and had a status as follows: Paper 2: Submitted. Paper 3: Submitted. 4: Manuscript.
Laestander, Joakim, i Simon Laestander. "OTEC - Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion". Thesis, KTH, Energiteknik, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-98974.
Pełny tekst źródłaOTEC är en teknik där kraft utvinns från havsvatten genom att utnyttja temperaturdifferensen mellan ytvatten och vatten från djupet. Denna teknik kräver dock generellt en temperaturdifferens på minst 20K. En sådan temperaturskillnad är geografiskt begränsad till den tropiska zonen runt ekvatorn.I rapporten undersöks om OTEC kan användas till att förse 100 000 människor, boende på en 10 stor generisk ö i just den tropiska zonen, med dess elbehov. I detta projekt har det gjorts en litteraturstudie för att etablera en kunskapsbas och sedan gjorts en matematisk modell i programmet EES och slutligen har resultaten från modellen granskats och diskuterats. I modellen jämfördes två olika cykler och målet var att bestämma vilken av dessa som var det bästa alternativet för ön. För att underlätta beräkningarna gjordes vissa antaganden och förenklingar.Den slutna cykeln var mest effektiv men den öppna cykeln (OC) hade positiva synergieffekter som den sluta cykeln (CC) saknade. Kostnaden för en anläggning baserades på äldre studier och enligt dessa var den öppna cykeln billigare än den slutna. Anläggningar av de båda cyklerna kan tillgodose den fiktiva öns energibehov, det behöver dock byggas fler anläggningar om OC väljs framför CC.Det kommer krävas ytterligare arbete med att utveckla tekniken innan OTEC på allvar kan utmana dagens fossilbränslebaserade energisystem – eller att oljan helt enkelt blir för dyr. Idag är OTEC för dyrt för att kunna motiveras rent ekonomiskt, men om även miljövinsterna beaktas, samt att ön befriar sig från importer och därigenom får större kontroll över sitt eget energisystem, finns goda incitament att investera i OTEC redan idag.
Button, Keith Alfred. "Triton: outpost in the ocean". Thesis, University of Waterloo, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/2854.
Pełny tekst źródłaPresently, there is a gap in our ability to study this realm: we can no longer only sit on the surface, peering in from time to time; we need to look beneath the ocean's obscuring surface, at any point, for extended periods. Small research submersibles and self-contained diving gear only become available in the later half of the twentieth century, allowing us to venture beneath the ocean's surface. However, these have severe limitations, in their endurance (usually measured in hours) and operational conditions. The heyday for underwater research was the late nineteen-sixties; at that time there were, around the world, over fifty fixed undersea habitats operated by half a dozen countries. Their complexity, and their large on- and off- shore support requirements, eventually lead their sponsors to abandon of most of these habitats. There are only two left operating today, both of which are just off the coast of Florida, with one converted to a dive-access hotel in a coastal lagoon and the other anchored well offshore, the last remaining active undersea research habitat in the world.
We need a new type of ocean-going research vessel that will operate as an observation post on the deep ocean. Scientists need to collect a variety of data, over scales ranging from millimetres to kilometres and time spans ranging from seconds to days, years, and even decades; do this through a continuous, comprehensive, long-term, manned presence on and in the ocean, down to the seafloor, instead of trying to piece together processes by taking intermittent snapshots of a relatively few places and events; and keep this whole endeavour open and accessible to the entire world. A vessel that bridges the surface that isolates the two separate but intricately linked worlds, above and below, would enable researchers to be in both places at once. What such a vessel would be like, how it would function, and what challenges it would deal with; such a vessel is the focus of this thesis.
Seo, Hyodae. "Mesoscale coupled ocean-atmosphere interaction". Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2007. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3263355.
Pełny tekst źródłaTitle from first page of PDF file (viewed July 10, 2007). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 138-152).
Woodgate, Rebecca A. "Data assimilation in ocean models". Thesis, University of Oxford, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.359566.
Pełny tekst źródłaMoore, A. M. "Data assimilation in ocean models". Thesis, University of Oxford, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.375276.
Pełny tekst źródłaReid, William David Kenneth. "Trophodynamics on mid-ocean ridges". Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/1744.
Pełny tekst źródłaPercival, James R. "Displacement assimilation for ocean models". Thesis, University of Reading, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.501349.
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