'Boundary currents' presentation slideshows

Ocean Currents

Ocean Currents. Why is Ocean Circulation Important?. Transport ~ 20% of latitudinal heat Equator to poles Transport nutrients and organisms Influences weather and climate Influences commerce. Non-rotating Earth. Convection cell model. Add rotation and add landmasses

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Boundary Currents and Interbasin Flows

Boundary Currents and Interbasin Flows. Harry L. Bryden Southampton Oceanography Centre. Outline. 1. Boundary Current Measurements 2. Issues 3. What Sets the Transports. Issues. 1. What causes fluctuation in boundary current transport?. Issues.

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Coastal Processes and Biogeochemical Fluxes at the Land-Ocean Interface

Coastal Processes and Biogeochemical Fluxes at the Land-Ocean Interface. William Balch Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, W. Boothbay Harbor, ME

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Coupled General Circulation Modeling

Coupled General Circulation Modeling. Anthony J. Broccoli Dept. of Environmental Sciences. Is There a Better Set of Lower Boundary Conditions?. Yes! The lower boundary conditions for the atmosphere could be determined interactively in response to processes internal to the model.

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Ocean Currents, Waves, and Tides Chapter 11 & 12 (Highways in the Sea; Waves and Tides)

Ocean Currents, Waves, and Tides Chapter 11 & 12 (Highways in the Sea; Waves and Tides). Oceanography 2014. Ch 11 Key Vocabulary. Ocean Current continuous, directed movement of seawater generated by the forces acting upon it Sea Level Pressure Gradient Force Gyre Ekman Transport

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WESTERN AND EASTERN BOUNDARY CURRENTS

WESTERN AND EASTERN BOUNDARY CURRENTS. Schematic Model of Boundary Currents. Western Intensification from Beta effect. Explanation of Western Intensification. Coriolis constant. Coriolis changing with latitude. Ocean Color. Low Productivity in Western Boundary Currents.

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Ocean Circulation

Ocean Circulation. Currents. Currents. Horizontally Vertically. The Forces That Drive Currents. Primary forces Starts water movement and determine its velocity Stress of wind Secondary forces Influence the direction and nature of flow Coriolis effect gravity friction

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Chapter 7

Chapter 7. Some Mathematics: The Equations of Motion Physical oceanography Instructor: Dr. Cheng-Chien Liu Department of Earth Sciences National Cheng Kung University Last updated: 24 October 2003. Introduction. Response of a fluid to Internal force External force

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Scripps High Resolution XBT Network: QA/QC Procedures

Scripps High Resolution XBT Network: QA/QC Procedures. Dean Roemmich , Lisa Lehmann, and Glenn Pezzoli Scripps Institution of Oceanography CLIVAR-GSOP Coordinated Quality-Control of Global Subsurface Ocean Climate Observations June 2013. Outline. SIO High Resolution Network, 1986-2013.

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ECCO2: Ocean state estimation in the presence of eddies and ice

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Ocean Currents

Ocean Currents. Ocean water circulates in currents caused by wind and by density differences Currents are the flow of water between areas of different surface levels or different densities. Ocean Currents. Ocean water moves constantly sideways, up, down because it is: Blown by wind

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Gyres and Currents

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Development of an Indian Ocean Moored Buoy Array for Climate*

Development of an Indian Ocean Moored Buoy Array for Climate*. *October 2006 issue of CLIVAR Exchanges. Mike McPhaden NOAA/Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory Seattle, Washington. NOAA Global Climate Coordination Team 25 October 2006. Tropical Moored Buoy Arrays for Climate Studies.

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Australian Initiatives in Marine Observing Systems

Australian Initiatives in Marine Observing Systems. Ken Jarrott Australian Bureau of Meteorology DBCP XXII 2006 La Jolla USA Tech & Scientific Workshop. Two Unrelated, Connected Initiatives. (Propositions). INTEGRATED MARINE OBSERVING SYSTEM

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Australian Initiatives in Marine Observing Systems

Australian Initiatives in Marine Observing Systems. Ken Jarrott Australian Bureau of Meteorology DBCP XXII 2006 La Jolla USA Tech & Scientific Workshop. Two Unrelated, Connected Initiatives. (Propositions). INTEGRATED MARINE OBSERVING SYSTEM

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Journal 1:

Journal 1: . How does the Coriolis effect influence the wind? How do you think this would affect currents in the ocean?. Journal 2: WED 1/11. What role do currents play in transporting heat? How do currents affect climate? WEBSITE FOR WEBQUEST:

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Glider design goals

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Results

A high-resolution global ocean model of ROMS and its application to GRACE. Ocean Model

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