The Oceanic Thermohaline Circulation: An Introduction

• Main Author: Aken, Hendrik M. van (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2007.
• Series: Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences Library, 39
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Climatology.; Oceanography.; Geobiology.; Continuum physics.; Climate change.; Earth Sciences.; Climate Change.; Classical Continuum Physics.; Earth Sciences, general.; Biogeosciences.

The Oceanic Thermohaline Circulation: An Introduction Hendrik M. van Aken Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Department of Physical Oceanography, Texel, The Netherlands In this book different aspects of the oceanic thermohaline circulation, the dominant meridionally overturning mode of th...

Table of Contents:

• The ocean basins
• Pressure, temperature, salinity, and some thermohaline dynamics
• Water mass and tracer analysis of the deep flow in the Atlantic Ocean
• The deep flow in the Southern, Indian, and Pacific oceans
• The upper branch of the THC
• Formation and descent of water masses
• Dynamics of the THC
• Deep upwelling and mixing
• Energetics of the THC
• Simple models, boundary conditions, and feedbacks
• The THC and different climates.