UID:
almahu_9948601416702882
Umfang:
XXVI, 612 p.
,
online resource.
Ausgabe:
1st ed. 1983.
ISBN:
9783642690037
Serie:
Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences,
Inhalt:
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.
Anmerkung:
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.
In:
Springer Nature eBook
Weitere Ausg.:
Printed edition: ISBN 9783642690051
Weitere Ausg.:
Printed edition: ISBN 9783540122531
Weitere Ausg.:
Printed edition: ISBN 9783642690044
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-642-69003-7
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69003-7
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