Ocean circulation : wind-driven and thermohaline processes /

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The interaction between ocean circulation and climate change has been an active research frontier in Earth sciences in recent years. Ocean circulation, and its related geophysical fluid dynamical principles, are now taught at graduate level in many Earth and atmospheric science departments. This is...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Huang, Rui Xin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Temas:
Ocean circulation.
Circulation océanique.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Oceanography.
NATURE > Ecosystems & Habitats > Oceans & Seas.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Description of the world's oceans
  • 1.1. Surface forcing for the world's oceans
  • 1.2. Temperature, salinity, and density distribution in the world's oceans
  • 1.3. Various types of motion in the oceans
  • 1.4. survey of oceanic circulation theory
  • 2. Dynamical foundations
  • 2.1. Dynamical and thermodynamic laws
  • 2.2. Dimensional analysis and nondimensional numbers
  • 2.3. Basic concepts in thermodynamics
  • 2.4. Thermodynamics of seawater
  • 2.5. hierarchy of equations of state for seawater
  • 2.6. Scaling and different approximations
  • 2.7. Boussinesq approximations and buoyancy fluxes
  • 2.8. Various vertical coordinates
  • 2.9. Ekman layer
  • 2.10. Sverdrup relation, island rule, and the [Beta]-spiral
  • 3. Energetics or the oceanic circulation
  • 3.1. Introduction
  • 3.2. Sandstrom's theorem
  • 3.3. Seawater as a two-component mixture
  • 3.4. Balance of mass, energy, and entropy
  • 3.5. Energy equations for the world's oceans
  • 3.6. Mechanical energy balance in the ocean
  • 3.7. Gravitational potential energy and available potential energy
  • 3.8. Entropy balance in the oceans
  • 4. Wind-driven circulation
  • 4.1. Simple layered models
  • 4.2. Thermocline models with continuous stratification
  • 4.3. Structure of circulation in a subpolar gyre
  • 4.4. Recirculation
  • 4.5. Layer models coupling thermocline and thermohaline circulation
  • 4.6. Equatorial thermocline
  • 4.7. Communication between subtropics and tropics
  • 4.8. Adjustment of thermocline and basin-scale circulation
  • 4.9. Climate variability inferred from models of the thermocline
  • 4.10. Inter-gyre communication due to regional climate variability
  • 5. Thermohaline circulation
  • 5.1. Water mass formation/erosion
  • 5.2. Deep circulation
  • 5.3. Haline circulation
  • 5.4. Theories for the thermohaline circulation
  • 5.5. Combining wind-driven and thermohaline circulation
  • Appendix: Definition of the oceanic sensible heat flux.

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