The Physical Nature and Structure of Oceanic Fronts formatIsbn:Softcover 9780387964454 The field of alphanumeric displays 9783110089400 The field of alphanumeric displays covers appli cations from the single character lift indicator to the thousand plus character computer read out and administrative (policy) fronts are being associated more and more with the dynamic and kinematic features which arise when kinetic energy and enstrophy are transmitted through a cascade of scales characterizing various forms of motion of a stratified medium in laterally confined oceanic basins We are beginning to get a better understanding of the role synoptic scale oceanic eddies play in the process of frontogenesis in the ocean