Oceanography of the British Columbia CoastThis 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. |
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Alaska average basin beach bottom brackish breakers British Columbia Burrard Inlet channel circulation cm/s coastal continental Coriolis crest depth direction Discovery Passage diurnal Dixon Entrance drift earth effect energy fetch flow force Fraser River Fuca Strait gravity waves Haro Strait Hecate Strait increase internal gravity waves Johnstone Strait Juan de Fuca layer low water marine moon motions move Narrows northern northward northwest occur oceanographic offshore Pacific Ocean pattern period Point Atkinson propagate Queen Charlotte Sound Queen Charlotte Strait region rip currents ripples salinity sand sea level sea surface Seamount seaward sediments semidiurnal Seymour Narrows shallow shelf shore shoreline side sill slope Sooke southern Spit storm Strait of Georgia summer surface currents surface water swell temperature tidal currents tidal range tidal streams tide tion trough tsunami upwelling Vancouver Island Victoria wave height wavelength west coast wind speed winter zone