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158 Regional Oceanography: an Introduction be small. The major water exchange between the Pacific Ocean proper and the deep basins of the Bering Sea is believed to occur between 168°E and 172°E where the sill depth i

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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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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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Chapter 12 Hydrology of the Indian Ocean The distribution of hydrological properties in the Indian Ocean is much less affected by the seasonal monsoon cycle than the near-surface current field. Direct monsoonal influence

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Chapter 13 Adjacent seas of the Indian Ocean and the Australasian Mediterranean S e a (the Indonesian throughflow) Being the smallest of all oceans, the Indian Ocean does not have the large number of distinct subregions

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References Aagaard, K. and P. GreismanTowards new mass and heat budgets for the Arctic ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research 80, Aagaard, K., L. K. Coachman and E. C. CarmackOn the halocline o

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Chapter 3 The Coriolis force, intensification geostrophy,

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138 Regional Oceanography: an Introduction A characteristic feature of the South Pacific Ocean is the existence of a second region of wind convergence in the tropics known as the South Pacific Convergence Zone or SPCZ.

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• Water masses
• Physical oceanography
• Atlantic Ocean
• Chemical oceanography
• North Atlantic Deep Water
• Antarctic Bottom Water
• Antarctic Intermediate Water
• Mixed layer
• Ocean
• Physical geography
• Oceanography
• Earth

230 Regional Oceanography: an Introduction FigTopography of the Atlantic Ocean. The 1000, 3000, and 5000 m isobaths are shown, and regions less than 3000 m deep are shaded.

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• Atlantic Ocean
• Oceanic gyres
• Oceans
• Ocean gyre
• Equatorial Counter Current
• Boundary current
• North Equatorial Current
• South Equatorial Current
• Kuroshio Current
• Ocean currents
• Oceanography
• Physical oceanography