Keywords:
Oceanic mixing
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Electronic books
Description / Table of Contents:
Front Cover -- Ocean Mixing -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Editors' biographies -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Ocean mixing: oceanography at a watershed -- References -- 2 The role of ocean mixing in the climate system -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The role of ocean mixing in shaping the contemporary climate mean state -- 2.2.1 Meridional overturning circulation and heat transport -- 2.2.2 Southern Ocean -- 2.2.3 Mixing in exchanges between marginal seas and the open ocean -- 2.2.4 Mixing and marine ecosystems -- 2.3 Ocean mixing and transient climate change -- 2.3.1 Ocean anthropogenic heat and carbon uptake -- 2.3.2 Contemporary and future sea level rise -- 2.3.3 Changes in nutrient fluxes -- 2.3.4 Changes in ocean mixing sources -- 2.3.4.1 Tides -- 2.3.4.2 Lee waves -- 2.4 Ocean mixing in past climate states -- 2.4.1 The Early Pliocene -- 2.4.2 The Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) -- 2.5 Summary and conclusion -- References -- 3 The role of mixing in the large-scale ocean circulation -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Flavours of mixing -- 3.3 Non-dissipative theories of ocean circulation -- 3.3.1 Ekman pumping -- 3.3.2 Momentum redistribution by geostrophic turbulence -- 3.4 How can mixing shape circulation? -- 3.4.1 By altering surface wind and buoyancy forcing -- 3.4.2 By altering density gradients -- 3.4.3 By producing and consuming water masses -- 3.5 Where is mixing most effective at shaping circulation? -- 3.5.1 Isotropic mixing, from top to bottom -- 3.5.2 Mesoscale stirring, from top to bottom -- 3.6 Some impacts on basin-scale overturning circulation -- 3.6.1 Abyssal overturning cell -- 3.6.2 North Atlantic Deep Water circulation -- 3.6.3 Southern Ocean upwelling: adiabatic or diabatic? -- 3.6.4 The return flow to the North Atlantic -- 3.6.5 Shallow hemispheric cells -- 3.7 Some impacts on basin-scale horizontal circulation.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (386 pages)
ISBN:
9780128215135
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=6727652
DDC:
551.462
Language:
English
Note:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
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