Keywords:
Abyssal zone--Atlantic Ocean.
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Ocean circulation--Atlantic Ocean.
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Bottom water (Oceanography)--Antarctic Ocean.
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Bottom water (Oceanography)--Atlantic Ocean.
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
This book is dedicated to the study of the structure, as well as the transport, of deep and bottom waters through underwater channels in the Atlantic Ocean. The study is based on recent observations, analysis of historical data, and a literature review.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (281 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9789048193585
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=645399
DDC:
551.46213
Language:
English
Note:
Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 -- Geological and Geophysical Characteristics of the Transform Fault Zones1 -- 1.1 General Description -- 1.2 Charlie Gibbs Fracture Zone -- 1.3 Vema Fracture Zone -- 1.4 Romanche Fracture Zone -- 1.5 Chain Fracture Zone -- 1.6 Vema Channel -- Chapter 2 -- Deep Water Masses of the South and North Atlantic -- 2.1 General Description -- 2.2 Antarctic Intermediate Water -- 2.3 Upper Circumpolar Water and Upper Circumpolar Deep Water -- 2.4 North Atlantic Deep Water -- 2.5 Lower Circumpolar Water and Lower Circumpolar Deep Water, Circumpolar Bottom Water, Southeast Pacific Deep Water, and Warm D -- 2.6 Antarctic Bottom Water -- Chapter 3 -- Source Regions, Abyssal Pathways, and Bottom Flow Channels (for Waters of the Antarctic Origin) -- 3.1 General Description -- 3.2 Weddell Sea and Weddell Gyre -- 3.3 Agulhas and Cape Basins -- 3.4 Drake Passage, Scotia Sea, and Georgia Basin -- 3.4.1 General Description and Bottom Topography -- 3.4.2 Deep and Bottom Water Masses and Previous Concepts of Circulation -- 3.4.3 Analysis of Recent Data -- 3.5 Antarctic Bottom Water in the Argentine Basin -- Chapter 4 -- Exchange Between the Argentine and Brazil Basins -- Abyssal Pathways and Bottom Flow Channels (for Waters of the Antarctic Origin) -- 4.1 General Description -- 4.2 Vema Channel -- 4.2.1 Topography and General Description -- 4.2.2 History of Research and Datasets of Long-Term Observations -- 4.2.3 Deep and Bottom Waters -- 4.2.4 Section Along the Channel -- 4.2.5 Structure of the Flow. Sections Across the Channel -- 4.2.6 Trends in Potential Temperature and Salinity of the Coldest Bottom Water Observed Since 1972 -- 4.2.7 Salinity Variations -- 4.2.8 Flow in the Southern Part of the Channel at the Boundary with the Argentine Basin.
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4.2.9 Moored Observations of Velocities in the Channel -- 4.2.10 Measurements with the Lowered ADCP -- 4.2.11 Moored Measurements and Satellite Topography -- 4.2.12 Temperature Fluctuations and Current Shear in the Flow of Antarctic Bottom Water at the Vema Sill -- 4.2.13 Suspended Matter in the Channel and Adjacent Slopes of the Rio Grande Rise -- 4.3 Santos Plateau -- 4.4 Hunter Channel -- Chapter 5 -- Further Propagation of Antarctic Bottom Water from the Brazil Basin -- 5.1 Brazil Basin -- 5.2 Flow in the Guiana Basin and Westward Equatorial Channels -- 5.3 North American Basin -- 5.4 Eastward Equatorial Channels. The Romanche and Chain Fracture Zones -- 5.4.1 Research History -- 5.4.2 Moored and LADCP Measurements of Currents -- 5.4.3 CTD-Sections Along and Across the Fracture Zones -- 5.4.4 Time Variations in Temperature and Salinity -- 5.4.5 Underwater Cataract in the Chain Fracture Zone -- 5.5 Vema Fracture Zone -- 5.5.1 Bottom Topography -- 5.5.2 Measurements -- 5.5.3 Structure of Bottom Flow -- 5.5.4 Bottom Water Transport -- 5.6 Eastern Basin Pathways and Further Propagation of Antarctic Bottom Water in the East Atlantic -- 5.6.1 General Description -- 5.6.2 Mixing Caused by the Barotropic Tide -- 5.7 Kane Gap -- 5.8 Angola Basin -- Chapter 6 -- Flows through the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in the Northern Channels. Charlie Gibbs Fracture Zone and Other Fracture Zones1 -- Integrated Conclusions -- References.
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