TY  - BOOK
AU  - Robinson,Allan R.
TI  - Eddies in marine Science
T2  - Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
SN  - 9783642690051
PY  - 1983///
CY  - Berlin
PB  - Springer-Verlag
KW  - Oceanografía
KW  - Ciencias del mar
N1  - Índice; Bibliografía: p. [568]-601
N2  - It is now well known that the mid-ocean flow is almost everywhere domiÂ{u0BA1}ted by so-called synoptic or meso-scale eddies, rotating about nearly vertical axes and extending throughout the water column. A typical midÂ{u0BE3}ean horizontal scale is 100 km and a time scale is 100 days: these mesoÂ{u0CE3}ale eddies have swirl speeds of order 10 cm s -1 which are usually conÂ{u0CE9}derably 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. StockÂ{u0B61}n in the 1930's. Measurements from RIV Aries in 1959/60, using the then newly developed neutrally buoyant floats, indicated the main charÂ{u0863}teristics of the eddies in the deep ocean of the NW Atlantic while a seÂ{u0CA9}es 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 AtÂ{u0B21}ntic and confirmed the existence of an open ocean eddy field and esÂ{u0D21}blished 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
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