Eddies in marine Science / edited by Allan R. Robinson
Eddies in marine Science /
edited by Allan R. Robinson
- Berlin : Springer-Verlag, 1983
- XXV, 609 p. : il. ; 25 cm.
- Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences .
Índice
Bibliografía: p. [568]-601
It is now well known that the mid-ocean flow is almost everywhere domiÂted by so-called synoptic or meso-scale eddies, rotating about nearly vertical axes and extending throughout the water column. A typical midÂean horizontal scale is 100 km and a time scale is 100 days: these mesoÂale eddies have swirl speeds of order 10 cm s -1 which are usually conÂderably greater than the long-term average flow. Many types of eddies with somewhat different scales and characteristics have been identified. The existence of such eddies was suspected by navigators more than a century ago and confirmed by the world of C. O'D. Iselin and V. B. StockÂn in the 1930's. Measurements from RIV Aries in 1959/60, using the then newly developed neutrally buoyant floats, indicated the main charÂteristics of the eddies in the deep ocean of the NW Atlantic while a seÂes of Soviet moored current-meter arrays culminated, in POLYGON- 1970, in the explicit mapping of an energetic anticyclonic eddy in the tropical NE Atlantic. In 1973 a large collaborative (mainly U. S. , U. K. ) program, MODE-I, produced synoptic charts for an area of the NW AtÂntic and confirmed the existence of an open ocean eddy field and esÂblished its characteristics. Meso-scale eddies are now known to be of interest and importance to marine chemists and biologists as well as to physical oceanographers and meteorologists.
9783642690051
Oceanografía
Ciencias del mar
Índice
Bibliografía: p. [568]-601
It is now well known that the mid-ocean flow is almost everywhere domiÂted by so-called synoptic or meso-scale eddies, rotating about nearly vertical axes and extending throughout the water column. A typical midÂean horizontal scale is 100 km and a time scale is 100 days: these mesoÂale eddies have swirl speeds of order 10 cm s -1 which are usually conÂderably greater than the long-term average flow. Many types of eddies with somewhat different scales and characteristics have been identified. The existence of such eddies was suspected by navigators more than a century ago and confirmed by the world of C. O'D. Iselin and V. B. StockÂn in the 1930's. Measurements from RIV Aries in 1959/60, using the then newly developed neutrally buoyant floats, indicated the main charÂteristics of the eddies in the deep ocean of the NW Atlantic while a seÂes of Soviet moored current-meter arrays culminated, in POLYGON- 1970, in the explicit mapping of an energetic anticyclonic eddy in the tropical NE Atlantic. In 1973 a large collaborative (mainly U. S. , U. K. ) program, MODE-I, produced synoptic charts for an area of the NW AtÂntic and confirmed the existence of an open ocean eddy field and esÂblished its characteristics. Meso-scale eddies are now known to be of interest and importance to marine chemists and biologists as well as to physical oceanographers and meteorologists.
9783642690051
Oceanografía
Ciencias del mar