An overview of the advances made in the last decade and a half in this field. Based on an advanced graduate level course, the book represents fundamental insights into the structure of the physical theory of the large-scale dynamics of the oceans. The author has maintained throughout a blend of analytical and numerical results so as to achieve as deep a physical understanding of the dynamics of the large-scale circulations as possible. The results of the theories are compared with observations and the success or inadequacies of the theories are highlighted. Topics of particular interest are: theory of the wind-driven circulation, the thermocline, the equatorial circulation and the abyssal circulation. Much of the material - previously scattered throughout the literature - has been collated here for the first time.
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Pressure maps of the flow in the upper ocean, such as that shown in Fig. 1.1.1 (a, Stommel et al. 1978; b, Reid 1994) indicate a large-scale clockwise circulation in the subtropical North Atlantic, i.e., in the region south of 45°N but north of a few degrees of the equator. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North Atlantic, Homogeneous Models of the Ocean Circulation, North Pacific, New York, Deep Sea Res, Fluid Mech, Gulf Stream, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Equatorial Dynamics of the Thermocline, Levitus Atlas, Baroclinic Quasi-Geostrophic Models, Dipole Circulation Associated, Marine Res, South America New!
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Pressure maps of the flow in the upper ocean, such as that shown in Fig. 1.1.1 (a, Stommel et al. 1978; b, Reid 1994) indicate a large-scale clockwise circulation in the subtropical North Atlantic, i.e., in the region south of 45°N but north of a few degrees of the equator. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North Atlantic, Homogeneous Models of the Ocean Circulation, North Pacific, New York, Deep Sea Res, Fluid Mech, Gulf Stream, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Equatorial Dynamics of the Thermocline, Levitus Atlas, Baroclinic Quasi-Geostrophic Models, Dipole Circulation Associated, Marine Res, South America New!
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- Deep Sea by Francis Brett Young on 4 pages
- General Circulation of the Ocean (Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences) by Henry D.I. Abarbanel in Back Matter
- Geophysical Fluid Dynamics by Joseph Pedlosky on page 275
- Climatological Atlas of the World Ocean by Sydney Levitus on page 274
- Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics: Fundamentals and Large-scale Circulation by Geoffrey K. Vallis on page 625, and Back Matter
- V Hotine-Marussi Symposium on Mathematical Geodesy: Matera, Italy June 17-21, 2003 (International Association of Geodesy Symposia) by Fernando Sanṣ on page 178
- Prandtl's Essentials of Fluid Mechanics (Applied Mathematical Sciences) by Herbert Oertel in Back Matter
- Earth Gravity Field from Space - from Sensors to Earth Sciences (Space Sciences Series of ISSI) by G. Beutler on page 260
- Perspectives in Fluid Dynamics: A Collective Introduction to Current Research by G. K. Batchelor on page 555
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