Ocean circulation
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Ocean circulation
（Oceanography series, v. 3）
Butterworth-Heinemann, in association with the Open University, 2001
2nd ed
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Prepared by an Open University Course Team
Includes bibliographical references (p. 256) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This second edition retains the general structure of the first edition, buthas been updated in the light of recent oceanographic research, and improvedas a teaching text on the basis of feedback from past students and otherreaders.Notable additions include new sections addressing the topic ofnumerical modelling, and more discussion of natural oscillations in theocean-atmosphere system (previously confined to the El Nino phenomenon). Inparticular, the Chapter on the North Atlantic now includes a discussion ofthe North Atlantic Oscillation, as well as of the Great Salinity Anomaly. Inthe final Chapter, treatment of water mass formation has been updated toreflect recent ideas about the processes involved and how they relate toclimatic change over different time-scales, from decades to millennia.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- The atmosphere and the ocean
- Ocean currents
- The North Atlantic gyre: observations and theories
- Other major current systems
- Global fluxes and the deep circulation
- Suggested further reading
- Answers and comments to questions.
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