Thermodynamics of seawater

International Geophysics

Volumn 103, Issue , 2013, Pages 141-158

  McDougall, Trevor J ^a   Feistel, Rainer ^b   Pawlowicz, Rich ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Absolute Salinity; Conservative Temperature; Density of seawater; Ocean heat flux; Potential enthalpy; Preformed Salinity; Seawater entropy; Seawater heat content; Seawater reference composition; Seawater thermodynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886433422     PISSN: 00746142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-391851-2.00006-4     Document Type: Chapter

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