Atlas of the Seas Around the British Isles

Atlas of the Seas Around the British Isles
Complied by the Directorate of Fisheries Research

Very large format. Spiral bound hard back in very good condition.

Contents:
Map projections
Variation in depth
Mean surface temperature in summer/winter
Mean bottom temperature in summer/winter
Mean surface salinity summer/winter
Mean bottom salinity summer/sinter
Max. tidal current speed at mean spring tides
Mean neap tide current speed maxima
Tidal range at mean spring tides
Lines along which high water occurs at the same time
Layering of the water column in the summer months
Plankton distribution
General near-surface pattern of water movement
UK tidal current observations sites 1967-79
Surface windroses for January
fifty year wave heights and wave periods
Distribution of the radionuclide caesium-137 in 1973
Changing distribution of zinc, nickel, copper and cadmium

98 pages
Colour maps throughout
440 mm x 307 mm (17 in x 12 in)
1981, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, UK