Overview

It is now well known that the mid-ocean flow is almost everywhere domi­ nated by so-called synoptic or meso-scale eddies, rotating about nearly vertical axes and extending throughout the water column. A typical mid­ ocean horizontal scale is 100 km and a time scale is 100 days: these meso­ scale eddies have swirl speeds of order 10 cm s -1 which are usually con­ siderably greater than the long-term average flow. Many types of eddies with somewhat different scales and characteristics have been identified. The existence of such eddies was suspected by navigators more than a century ago and confirmed by the world of C. O'D. Iselin and V. B. Stock­ man in the 1930's. Measurements from RIV Aries in 1959/60, using the then newly developed neutrally buoyant floats, indicated the main char­ acteristics of the eddies in the deep ocean of the NW Atlantic while a se­ ries of Soviet moored current-meter arrays culminated, in POLYGON- 1970, in the explicit mapping of an energetic anticyclonic eddy in the tropical NE Atlantic. In 1973 a large collaborative (mainly U. S. , U. K. ) program, MODE-I, produced synoptic charts for an area of the NW At­ lantic and confirmed the existence of an open ocean eddy field and es­ tablished its characteristics. Meso-scale eddies are now known to be of interest and importance to marine chemists and biologists as well as to physical oceanographers and meteorologists.

Full Product Details

Author:   A. R. Robinson
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1983
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   1.094kg
ISBN:  

9783642690051

ISBN 10:   364269005
Pages:   612
Publication Date:   07 December 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier.

Table of Contents

1. Overview and Summary of Eddy Science.- Regional Kinematics, Dynamics, and Statistics.- 2. Gulf Stream Rings.- 3. Western North Atlantic Interior.- 4. The Western North Atlantic - A Lagrangian Viewpoint.- 5. The Local Dynamics of Eddies in the Western North Atlantic.- 6. Gulf Stream Variability.- 7. The Northeast Atlantic Ocean.- 8. Eddy Structure of the North Pacific Ocean.- 9. Subpolar Gyres and the Arctic Ocean.- 10. Tropical Equatorial Regions.- 11. Eddies in the Indian Ocean.- 12. The South Pacific Including the East Australian Current.- 13. Eddies in the Southern Indian Ocean and Agulhas Current.- 14. The Southern Ocean.- 15. Global Summaries and Intercomparisons: Flow Statistics from Long-Term Current Meter Moorings.- 16. Global Summary: Review of Eddy Phenomena as expressed in Temperature Measurements.- Models.- 17. Eddy-Resolving Numerical Models of Large-Scale Ocean Circulation.- 18. Periodic and Regional Models.- Effects and Applications.- 19. Eddies in Relation to Climate.- 20. Eddies and Coastal Interactions.- 21. Eddy-Induced Dispersion and Mixing.- 22. Eddies and Biological Processes.- 23. Eddies and Acoustics.- 24. Instruments and Methods.- References.

Reviews

Author Information

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions