Subject Index
hydrologic cycle 3, 4
hydrostatics 17, 19-24
hyperbolic function 507, 509-511
Indian Ocean 12, 99, 100, 206, 212,
219, 222, 224, 242, 243, 286,
318, 454
Indonesian throughflow 223, 236
inertia coefficient 64, 140
inorganic salts 11
Intertropical Convergence Zone 205
inverted barometer effect 105
island wake 459
isopycnals 183
isotherms 183
Jiaojiang River 395, 396
JOINT II 455
JONSWAP experiment 151
Kaspiyan Sea 153
Keulegan-Carpenter number 140-142,
435
Kimberley Coast 169
knot 92, 475
Kolmogorov, A.N. 33
Krakatoa 101
Kutta-Zhukovskii theorem 62
Lagrange, J. 25
Lagrangian method 25, 276, 279, 308
Lake Baikal 105
Langmuir circulation 218
La Nina 224, 457
Laplace, P.S. 155, 482
Laplacian 482, 486, 489
larval settlement 411-414
Leibniz, G. 7
Leonardo da Vinci 28
lift coefficient 60, 62, 140
light intensity 402, 403
Mach number 36, 325
mangrove forests 401, 418
sedimentation 425-426
tide-induced water motion 418,
419
wave attenuation 419-425
Marianas Trench 5
material
elastic 338
Hookean 339
plastic 339, 340
material moduli
bulk 341, 342
elasticity 339
section 343, 347
shear 341, 342
Young's 340, 342, 350
555
measurement techniques and instruments 305-319
Aanderaa current meter 308
acoustic Doppler current profiler
309-312
ADCP 309-312, 326
altimetry 315-317
assimilation techniques 317
ATSR 315, 319
AVHRR 315,318,319
bathythermograph 306, 307
CTD probe 198, 307
ERS satellites 314-316, 319
GEOSAT 314-317
HIRS 319
InterOcean S4 current meter 308,
309
LANDSAT satellite 196, 198
Marsch-McBirney 512 current meter 308
ocean circulation 317,318
ocean current 307-312
pressure transducers 312
remote sensing 314-319
salinity 307
sea surface temperature (SST) 318
SeaWiFS satellite 314,315
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)
198, 31.5-317
temperature 306
tides 317
thermistors :W7
TOPEX/POSEIDON 177, 210,
314-318
wave gauges 312
wave rider buoys 313, 314
wave staffs 313