Download or read book Intermediate Waters of the Pacific Ocean written by Joseph L. Reid and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Oxygen and Phosphate as Indicators for the Deep Intermediate Waters in the Northeast Pacific Ocean written by Ricardo Marcos Pytkowicz and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Regional Oceanography written by Matthias Tomczak and published by Daya Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to regional oceanography for students in all fields of marine sciences. The two core principles are the use of the most modern data base for all maps of the regional distribution of properties, and discussion of all observed features within a frame of reference developed from ocean dynamics, rather than based on the simple geographical approach. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Download or read book Formation of the Intermediate Salinity Minimum in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean written by Keiichi Hasunuma and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Antarctic Intermediate Water in the South Pacific Ocean written by Ronald Ernest Johnson and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The distribution of Antarctic Intermediate Water in the South Pacific has been examined using a model of horizontal advection, along the Sigma-t surface 27.10, with three point vertical mixing. The core of the Antarctic Intermediate Water mass was traced from the Antarctic Convergence northward. The charts used to describe the distribution were those of core depth, salinity, percentage composition, Equivalent Thickness, and acceleration potential. The percentage composition of Antarctic Intermediate Water in the entire water column for all stations was computed and the Equivalent Thickness determined. Intermediate water volume for the South Pacific was then calculated. North-South geostrophic velocities and transports were computed for two zonal sections. The model agreed quite well with the flow patterns reported by other investigators. The broad counterclockwise gyre in the central South Pacific, the flow into the Tasman and Coral Seas, the localized flow near New Zealand, and the suggestion of southward flow near the South American Coast are all indicated by the model. A previously unreported small, counterclockwise gyre in the southeast South Pacific was detected. The circulation within the small gyre is consistent wity flow over a variable bottom in the Southern Hemisphere. Antarctic Intermediate Water transport across selected sections indicate a northward flow of 10 x 106 m3 sec−1. A low salinity tongue was found on the salinity chart. This tongue extended northward, then westward, into the northern Tasman Sea. The salinity was over 34.50°/00 in the center of this counterclockwise motion east of New Zealand. The isohalines in the southeast Pacific suggest the presence of the small counterclockwise gyre. A 20 percent drop in core percentage composition was noted in the 10 degrees north of the Antarctic Convergence. A large uniform area between 80 percent and 70 percent over the central portion of the central South Pacific was bounded on the north by a 20 percent drop near the equator, again supporting the general counterclockwise circulation. The Equivalent Thickness distribution showed a general lenticular shape, the thickest part lying in the center of the counterclockwise gyre east of New Zealand. The Equivalent Thickness distribution, as well as the core percentage, supported the hypothesis of little or no flow into the Tasman Sea from the south. The volume of intermediate water obtained from surface area integration of the Equivalent Thickness distribution was 59.44 x 106 km3. This is approximately 16% of the water volume in the South Pacific.

Download or read book Physical Oceanography of the Southeast Asian Waters written by Klaus Wyrtki and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ocean Circulation Theory written by Joseph Pedlosky and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Principal Hydrological Features of the Pacific Ocean written by A. M. Muromt͡sev and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Turbulent Diffusion in the Intermediate Water of the North Pacific Ocean written by Edward A. Schuert and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Oceans written by Dorrik A. V. Stow and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our oceans are hugely important, as a source of food and mineral wealth, as an environment for a vast variety of wildlife, for the role they play in climate regulation, and as part of the biogeochemical cycles of carbon, nitrogen, and other elements critical to life. Dorrik Stow explores what we know about how oceans originate and are maintained.

Download or read book Early Middle Pleistocene Transitions written by Geological Society of London and published by Geological Society of London. This book was released on 2005 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Early-Middle Pleistocene transition (around 1.2 to 0.5 Ma) marks a profound shift in Earth's climate state. Low-amplitude 41 ka climate cycles, dominating the earlier part of the Pleistocene, gave way progressively to a 100 ka rhythm of increased amplitude that characterizes our present glacial-interglacial world. This volume assesses the biotic and physical response to this transition both on land and in the oceans: indeed it examines the very nature of Quaternary climate change. Milankovitch theory, palaeoceanography using isotopes and microfossils, marine organic geochemistry, tephrochronology, the record of loess and soil deposition, terrestrial vegetational change, and the migration and evolution of hominins as well as other large and small mammals, are all considered. These themes combine to explore the very origins of our present biota.

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Download or read book Turbulent Diffusion in the Intermediate Waters of the North Pacific Ocean written by Edward A. Schuert and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A field experiment to measure turbulent diffusion in stable intermediate water was conducted in the Kauai channel off the island of Oahu, Hawaii, in the spring of 1968. 122,000 grams of Rhodamine BMG dye were injected with neutral buoyancy at a depth of 300 meters. The growth of the dye pool was followed for over 72 hours with towed pumping systems coupled to on-deck fluorometers. A complete description of the pool was obtained 46.5 hours after injection. Application of the data to existing theoretical models describing concentration distributions resulted in calculated characteristic parameters of energy dissipation, after Okubo, of .0066 sq cm/sec and diffusion velocity, after Joseph and Sendner, of 0.13 cm/sec. Vertical transport was extremely slow, the pool remaining approximately 2 meters thick throughout the experiment. (Author).

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