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  title info:
    title: Abyssal Channels in the Atlantic Ocean
    sub title: Water Structure and Flows
  name:
    name part: Morozov, Eugene G.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Demidov, Alexander N.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Tarakanov, Roman Y.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Zenk, Walter.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXII, 266 p. online resource.
  abstract: This book is dedicated to the study of structure and transport of deep and bottom waters through underwater channels of the Atlantic Ocean. The study is based on recent observations, analysis of historical data, and literature review. A strong flow of Antarctic Bottom Water from the Argentine Basin to the Brazil Basin through the Vema Channel (32-27 S) is studied on the basis of CTD sections combined with LADCP profiling carried out annually and long-term moored measurements. The flow in the Vema Channel is mixed in the vertical direction but horizontally stratified. The mean speed of the flow is 30 cm/s and water transport is approximately 3.5 Sv. Owing to the bottom Ekman friction the dense core of the flow is usually displaced to the eastern wall of the channel. A temperature increase was found in the deep Vema Channel, which has been observed for 30 years already. The further flow of bottom water in the Brazil Basin splits in the northern part of the basin. Part of water flows to the East Atlantic basins through the Romanche and Chain fracture zones. The other part is a northwestern flow to the North American Basin. Part of the northwesterly flow propagates through the Vema Fracture Zone (11 N) into the Northeastern Atlantic basins. Flows in the Romanche, Chain, and Vema fracture zones were studied recently by CTD and LADCP profiling. An underwater cataract was found in the Chain Fracture Zone. Recent measurements in the Kane Gap show that the flow of bottom water there is characterized by alternative transport in time. The Northeastern Atlantic basins are filled with the bottom water flowing through the Vema Fracture Zone. The flows of bottom waters through the Romanche and Chain fracture zones do not spread to the Northeast Atlantic due to strong mixing in the equatorial zone and enhanced transformation of bottom water properties. Extra material: The CTD data sets collected in abyssal channels of the Atlantic Ocean can be downloaded from http://extras.sprin…
  table of contents: Geological and Geophysical Characteristics of the Transform Fault Zones -- Deep Water Masses of the South and North Atlantic -- Source Regions, Abyssal Pathways, and Bottom Flow Channels (for Waters of the Antarctic Origin) -- Exchange Between the Argentine and Brazil Basins; Abyssal Pathways and Bottom Flow Channels (for Waters of the Antarctic Origin) -- Further Propagation of Antarctic Bottom Water from the Brazil Basin -- Flows through the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in the Northern Channels. Charlie Gibbs Fracture Zone and Other Fracture Zones.
  note: by Eugene G. Morozov, Alexander N. Demidov, Roman Y. Tarakanov, Walter Zenk.
  subject:
    topic: Earth sciences
  subject:
    topic: Oceanography
  subject:
    topic: Climate change
  subject:
    topic: Earth Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Oceanography
  subject:
    topic: Climate Change
  classification: GC1-1581
  classification: 551.46
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9789048193585
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9358-5
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    record creation date: 100917
    record change date: 20151125192525.0
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