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121Ocean currents / Aquatic ecology / Earth / Fisheries science / Upwelling / Mixed layer / Indonesian Throughflow / Sea surface temperature / Boundary current / Oceanography / Physical oceanography / Physical geography

312 Regional Oceanography: an Introduction Fig[removed]Annual mean equilibrium surface temperature (°C) for the world ocean. This is the temperature the sea surface would have if the heat budget were locally balanced a

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122Boundary current / Ocean gyre / North Equatorial Current / Cromwell Current / South Equatorial Current / Kuroshio Current / Pacific Ocean / California Current / Atlantic Ocean / Ocean currents / Oceanography / Equatorial Counter Current

106 Regional Oceanography: an Introduction All adjacent seas of the Pacific Ocean are grouped along its west coast. Some of them (such as the Arafura and East China Seas) are large shelf seas, others (e.g. the Solomon

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123Earth / Antarctic Circumpolar Current / Antarctic Intermediate Water / Atlantic Ocean / Subtropical Front / Southern Ocean / Ocean gyre / Subantarctic / Ocean / Physical geography / Oceanography / Physical oceanography

64 Regional Oceanography: an Introduction 2500 m depth, or 10-30% of the speeds observed at the 500 m level. It is therefore easy to see why the Circumpolar Current has the largest mass transport of all ocean current

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124Aquatic ecology / Water / Mixed layer / Thermocline / Isopycnal / Halocline / Stratification / Cline / Ocean / Oceanography / Physical oceanography / Physical geography

52 Regional Oceanography: an Introduction combine water mass analysis with our knowledge of the constraints on possible flows posed by geostrophy and Ekman dynamics. This approach, which infers water movement

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125Cartography / Physics / Oceanography / Geodesy / Units of length / Isopycnal / Pycnocline / Longitude / Equator / Navigation / Physical oceanography / Measurement

380 Regional Oceanography: an Introduction isohalines isopycnals

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126Meteorology / Climatology / Sea surface temperature / Current sea level rise / El Niño-Southern Oscillation / Ocean current / Mixed layer / Global warming / Ocean observations / Atmospheric sciences / Physical oceanography / Earth

Chapter 20 The ocean and climate change In this final chapter we turn from the short-term climate variability of ENSO to consider variations with timescales of several decades or more. Small but persistent changes in cli

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127Physics / Physical oceanography / Oceanography / Fluid dynamics / Ocean currents / Geostrophic current / Geostrophic wind / Boundary current / Coriolis effect / Meteorology / Atmospheric sciences / Atmospheric dynamics

30 Regional Oceanography: an Introduction into account in the balance of forces. The Coriolis force is proportional in magnitude to the flow speed and directed perpendicular to the direction of the flow. It acts to the

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128Physical oceanography / Water masses / Aquatic ecology / Atlantic Ocean / Thermohaline circulation / Mixed layer / North Atlantic Deep Water / Antarctic Intermediate Water / Antarctic Bottom Water / Physical geography / Oceanography / Earth

Chapter 9 Hydrology of the Pacific Ocean The preceding chapter presented the currents of the Pacific Ocean essentially as winddriven and treated temperature, salinity and other hydrographic properties as passive tracers,

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129Earth / Physical oceanography / Fluid dynamics / Atmospheric dynamics / Ekman transport / Sverdrup balance / Boundary current / Ocean dynamics / Ekman layer / Ocean currents / Oceanography / Physical geography

Chapter 4 Ekman layer transports, Ekman pumping, and the Sverdrup balance Geostrophic flow, or the flow produced by a balance between the pressure gradient force and the Coriolis force, is frictionless flow. But momentum

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130Ocean currents / Arctic Ocean / Bodies of water / Marine ecoregions / Mediterranean sea / Atlantic Ocean / Ocean / East Greenland Current / Baffin Bay / Physical geography / Oceanography / Earth

INDEX The following abbreviations are used in this index: WO = World Ocean, AO = Atlantic Ocean, IO = Indian Ocean, PO = Pacific Ocean, Med = Mediterranean, C = Current. Adélie coast 79,80

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