Ocean circulation wind-driven and thermohaline processes

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Huang, Rui Xin
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Subjects
Ocean circulation.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9780511688492
9780511691461
9780521852289
9780511812293
Physical Description1 online zdroj (xiii, 791 p., [32] p. of plates) : ill. (some col.), maps

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Table of Contents:
  • 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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