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9780750652780

Ocean Circulation

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    9780750652780

  • ISBN10:

    0750652780

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-08-10
  • Publisher: Elsevier Science
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Summary

This second edition retains the general structure of the first edition, but has been updated in the light of recent oceanographic research, and improved as a teaching text on the basis of feedback from past students and other readers. Notable additions include new sections addressing the topic of numerical modelling, and more discussion of natural oscillations in the ocean-atmosphere system (previously confined to the El Niño phenomenon). In particular, the Chapter on the North Atlantic now includes a discussion of the North Atlantic Oscillation, as well as of the Great Salinity Anomaly. In the final Chapter, treatment of water mass formation has been updated to reflect recent ideas about the processes involved and how they relate to climatic change over different time-scales, from decades to millennia. High quality full colour diagrams Substantial chapter summaries ideal for revision Answers, hints and notes for questions at back of the book

Table of Contents

About this Volume 8(1)
About this Series 9(5)
Introduction
The Radiation Balance of the Earth-Ocean-Atmosphere System
14(2)
Summary of Chapter 1
16(2)
The Atmosphere and the Ocean
The Global Wind System
18(4)
Poleward Transport of Heat by the Atmosphere
22(7)
Atmospheric circulation in mid-latitudes
22(4)
Vertical convection in the atmosphere
26(3)
Atmosphere-Ocean Interaction
29(6)
Easterly waves and tropical cyclones
29(5)
A brief look ahead
34(1)
Summary of Chapter 2
35(4)
Ocean Currents
The Action of Wind on Surface Waters
39(5)
Frictional coupling with the ocean
40(2)
Ekman motion
42(2)
Inertia Currents
44(2)
Geostrophic currents
46(18)
Pressure gradients in the ocean
46(3)
Barotropic and baroclinic conditions
49(4)
Determination of geostrophic current velocities
53(7)
Pressure, density and dynamic topography
60(4)
Divergences and Convergences
64(5)
The Energy of the ocean: Scales of Motion
69(6)
Kinetic energy spectra
69(2)
Eddies
71(4)
Summary of Chapter 3
75(4)
The North Atlantic Gyre: Observations and Theories
The Gulf Stream
79(6)
Early observations and theories
79(6)
The Subtropical Gyres
85(22)
Vorticity
85(5)
Why is there a Gulf Stream?
90(8)
The Equations of motion
98(4)
Investigating the ocean through computer modelling
102(5)
Modern Observations and Studies of the North Atlantic Gyre
107(26)
The Gulf Stream System
107(2)
Geostrophic flow in the Gulf Stream
109(5)
Insights from MODE
114(3)
Measuring currents directly
117(5)
Mapping the Gulf Stream using water Characteristics
122(2)
Gulf Stream `rings'
124(5)
Other methods of current measurement
129(2)
Modelling the circulation of the North Atlantic
131(2)
Coastal upwelling in Eastern Boundary currents
133(4)
The North Atlantic Oscillation
137(3)
Summary of Chapter 4
140(3)
Other Major Current Systems
Equatorial Current Systems
143(13)
The Equatorial Undercurrent
146(7)
Upwelling in low latitudes
153(3)
Monsoonal Circulation
156(6)
Monsoon winds over the Indian Ocean
156(1)
The Current system of the Indian Ocean
157(5)
The Role of Long Waves in Ocean circulation
162(8)
Oceanic wave guides and Kelvin waves
164(3)
Rossby waves
167(3)
El Nino-Southern Oscillation
170(6)
Circulation in High Latitudes
176(10)
The Arctic Sea
177(4)
The Southern Ocean
181(5)
Summary of Chapter 5
186(5)
Global Fluxes and the Deep Circulation
The oceanic Heat Budget
191(11)
Solar radiation
191(1)
The heat-budget equation
192(10)
Conservation of Salt
202(4)
Practical application of the principles of conservation and continuity
203(3)
Ocean Water Masses
206(17)
Upper and intermediate water masses
208(5)
Deep and bottom water masses
213(10)
Oceanic Mixing and Temperature-Salinity Diagrams
223(11)
Mixing in the Ocean
223(2)
Temperature-Salinity diagrams
225(9)
Non-Conservative and Artificial Tracers
234(6)
Global Fluxes of Heat and Freshwater
240(10)
The global thermohaline conveyor
240(3)
The World Ocean Circulation Experiment
243(5)
Oceanography in the 21st century: predicting climatic change
248(2)
Summary of Chapter 6
250(6)
Suggested Further Reading 256(1)
Answers and Comments to Questions 257(22)
Acknowledgements 279(2)
Index 281

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