Descriptive Physical Oceanography¶
Talley, L. D., Pickard, G. L., Emery, W. J., & Swift, J. H. (2011). Descriptive Physical Oceanography: An Introduction. Academic Press.
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Primes¶
- Signature-Borne Provenance
- Oceanography. Water masses are identified by their conservative temperature-salinity signatures, set at the surface formation region and carried into the deep ocean; a measurement at depth infers the surface origin without any transport record.
This sourceStandard reference on water-mass identification by conservative temperature-salinity signatures and T-S diagrams, including end-member mixing analysis to recover surface formation origin without a transport record.
- Oceanography. Water masses are identified by their conservative temperature-salinity signatures, set at the surface formation region and carried into the deep ocean; a measurement at depth infers the surface origin without any transport record.
Domain-specific¶
- Downwelling
- In the subtropical gyres, anticyclonic wind-stress curl drives Ekman convergence and steady downwelling of ~30 m/year
This sourceStandard descriptive-oceanography treatment of Ekman pumping in the subtropical gyres, giving downward Ekman velocities of order tens of metres per year and the resulting thermocline deepening and mode-water formation.
- In the subtropical gyres, anticyclonic wind-stress curl drives Ekman convergence and steady downwelling of ~30 m/year
- Ekman Pumping
- Anticyclonic wind-stress curl across the subtropical gyres drives Ekman pumping of ~20–40 m/year downward
This sourceStandard descriptive treatment giving climatological subtropical-gyre Ekman pumping magnitudes of tens of metres per year downward under anticyclonic wind-stress curl. Supplies the observed 20-40 m/yr subtropical Ekman pumping band that the article's scale estimate is checked against.
- Anticyclonic wind-stress curl across the subtropical gyres drives Ekman pumping of ~20–40 m/year downward
- Ocean Current
- The resulting circulation organizes into named systems: swift, narrow western boundary currents (Gulf Stream, Kuroshio, Agulhas) intensified by Coriolis dynamics; broad, slow eastern boundary currents (California, Canary, Humboldt, Benguela) associated with coastal upwelling; connecting flows in subtropical and subpolar gyres; the unimpeded Antarctic Circumpolar Current; and the deep thermohaline overturning — the global conveyor that exchanges surface and deep water on millennial timescales
This sourceThe standard graduate descriptive-oceanography text, whose chapter structure is this taxonomy — dynamics, the boundary currents and gyres basin by basin, the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, and the global overturning circulation. The standard descriptive-oceanography text, where Gulf Stream volume transport and the associated heat flux are treated in the mass-, salt- and heat-budget and Atlantic Ocean chapters.
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- The resulting circulation organizes into named systems: swift, narrow western boundary currents (Gulf Stream, Kuroshio, Agulhas) intensified by Coriolis dynamics; broad, slow eastern boundary currents (California, Canary, Humboldt, Benguela) associated with coastal upwelling; connecting flows in subtropical and subpolar gyres; the unimpeded Antarctic Circumpolar Current; and the deep thermohaline overturning — the global conveyor that exchanges surface and deep water on millennial timescales
- Ocean Gyre
- Water Mass
- A water mass is a body of ocean water identified not by its location but by a stable signature in conservative properties — temperature, salinity, and in refined analyses dissolved oxygen or nutrient ratios — that were set at the parcel's formation region when it was last in contact with the atmosphere or with mixing processes at the sea surface
This sourceWater masses identified by a conservative property signature set at the formation region during last surface contact.
- A water mass is a body of ocean water identified not by its location but by a stable signature in conservative properties — temperature, salinity, and in refined analyses dissolved oxygen or nutrient ratios — that were set at the parcel's formation region when it was last in contact with the atmosphere or with mixing processes at the sea surface
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