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121	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 Add to Reading List Source URL: gaea.es.flinders.edu.au Language: English - Date: 2006-08-17 03:26:08 Ocean currents Aquatic ecology Earth Fisheries science Upwelling Mixed layer Indonesian Throughflow Sea surface temperature Boundary current Oceanography Physical oceanography Physical geography
122	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 Add to Reading List Source URL: gaea.es.flinders.edu.au Language: English - Date: 2006-08-17 03:26:16 Boundary 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
123	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 Add to Reading List Source URL: gaea.es.flinders.edu.au Language: English - Date: 2006-08-17 03:26:18 Earth Antarctic Circumpolar Current Antarctic Intermediate Water Atlantic Ocean Subtropical Front Southern Ocean Ocean gyre Subantarctic Ocean Physical geography Oceanography Physical oceanography
124	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 Add to Reading List Source URL: gaea.es.flinders.edu.au Language: English - Date: 2006-08-17 03:26:10 Aquatic ecology Water Mixed layer Thermocline Isopycnal Halocline Stratification Cline Ocean Oceanography Physical oceanography Physical geography
125	380 Regional Oceanography: an Introduction isohalines isopycnals Add to Reading List Source URL: gaea.es.flinders.edu.au Language: English - Date: 2006-08-17 03:26:17 Cartography Physics Oceanography Geodesy Units of length Isopycnal Pycnocline Longitude Equator Navigation Physical oceanography Measurement
126	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 Add to Reading List Source URL: gaea.es.flinders.edu.au Language: English - Date: 2006-08-17 03:26:10 Meteorology 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
127	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 Add to Reading List Source URL: gaea.es.flinders.edu.au Language: English - Date: 2006-08-17 03:26:06 Physics Physical oceanography Oceanography Fluid dynamics Ocean currents Geostrophic current Geostrophic wind Boundary current Coriolis effect Meteorology Atmospheric sciences Atmospheric dynamics
128	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, Add to Reading List Source URL: gaea.es.flinders.edu.au Language: English - Date: 2006-08-17 03:26:29 Physical 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
129	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 Add to Reading List Source URL: gaea.es.flinders.edu.au Language: English - Date: 2006-08-17 03:26:18 Earth Physical oceanography Fluid dynamics Atmospheric dynamics Ekman transport Sverdrup balance Boundary current Ocean dynamics Ekman layer Ocean currents Oceanography Physical geography
130	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 Add to Reading List Source URL: gaea.es.flinders.edu.au Language: English - Date: 2006-08-17 03:26:22 Ocean currents Arctic Ocean Bodies of water Marine ecoregions Mediterranean sea Atlantic Ocean Ocean East Greenland Current Baffin Bay Physical geography Oceanography Earth