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The Oceanic Thermohaline Circulation

An Introduction

Author: Hendrik v. Aken

ISBN-10: 0-387-36637-7

ISBN-13: 978-0-387-36637-1

Hardcover, 328 pages,

153 illustrations

Price: $129.00

Published: November 2006

This book presents a global hydrographic description of the thermohaline circulation, an introduction to the theoretical aspects of this phenomenon, and observational evidence for the theory. The hydrographic description and the observational evidence are based on data sources, available via internet, mainly from the World Oceanographic Experiment (WOCE). With the hydrographic description and observational evidence also comes an introduction to hydrographic analysis and interpretation.

Written for:

Advance undergraduates and graduate students in marine sciences and climatology

Table of contents:

1. Introduction.- 2. The Ocean Basins.- 3. Pressure, Temperature, Salinity and Some Thermohaline Dynamics.- 4. Water Mass and Tracer Analysis of the Deep Flow in the Atlantic Ocean.- 5. The Deep Flow in the Southern, Indian and Pacific Oceans.- 6. The Upper Branch of the THC.- 7. Formation and Descent of Water Masses.- 8. Dynamics of the THC.- 9. Deep Upwelling and Mixing.- 10. Energetics of the THC.- 11. Simple Models, Boundary Conditions and Feedbacks.- 12. The THC and Different Climates.- Appendix.- References.

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