Eddies in Marine Science

Herausgegeben:Robinson, A. R.

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Produktbeschreibung

It is now well known that the mid-ocean flow is almost everywhere domi nated by so-called synoptic or meso-scale eddies, rotating about nearly vertical axes and extending throughout the water column. A typical mid ocean horizontal scale is 100 km and a time scale is 100 days: these meso scale eddies have swirl speeds of order 10 cm s -1 which are usually con siderably greater than the long-term average flow. Many types of eddies with somewhat different scales and characteristics have been identified. The existence of such eddies was suspected by navigators more than a century ago and confirmed by the world of C. O'D. Iselin and V. B. Stock man in the 1930's. Measurements from RIV Aries in 1959/60, using the then newly developed neutrally buoyant floats, indicated the main char acteristics of the eddies in the deep ocean of the NW Atlantic while a se ries of Soviet moored current-meter arrays culminated, in POLYGON- 1970, in the explicit mapping of an energetic anticyclonic eddy in the tropical NE Atlantic. In 1973 a large collaborative (mainly U. S. , U. K. ) program, MODE-I, produced synoptic charts for an area of the NW At lantic and confirmed the existence of an open ocean eddy field and es tablished its characteristics. Meso-scale eddies are now known to be of interest and importance to marine chemists and biologists as well as to physical oceanographers and meteorologists.

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Produktdetails

• Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
• Verlag: Springer, Berlin
• Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1983
• Seitenzahl: 644
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 1092g
• ISBN-13: 9783642690051
• ISBN-10: 364269005X
• Artikelnr.: 36115808

Inhaltsangabe

1. Overview and Summary of Eddy Science.- Regional Kinematics, Dynamics, and Statistics.- 2. Gulf Stream Rings.- 3. Western North Atlantic Interior.- 4. The Western North Atlantic - A Lagrangian Viewpoint.- 5. The Local Dynamics of Eddies in the Western North Atlantic.- 6. Gulf Stream Variability.- 7. The Northeast Atlantic Ocean.- 8. Eddy Structure of the North Pacific Ocean.- 9. Subpolar Gyres and the Arctic Ocean.- 10. Tropical Equatorial Regions.- 11. Eddies in the Indian Ocean.- 12. The South Pacific Including the East Australian Current.- 13. Eddies in the Southern Indian Ocean and Agulhas Current.- 14. The Southern Ocean.- 15. Global Summaries and Intercomparisons: Flow Statistics from Long-Term Current Meter Moorings.- 16. Global Summary: Review of Eddy Phenomena as expressed in Temperature Measurements.- Models.- 17. Eddy-Resolving Numerical Models of Large-Scale Ocean Circulation.- 18. Periodic and Regional Models.- Effects and Applications.- 19. Eddies in Relation to Climate.- 20. Eddies and Coastal Interactions.- 21. Eddy-Induced Dispersion and Mixing.- 22. Eddies and Biological Processes.- 23. Eddies and Acoustics.- 24. Instruments and Methods.- References.