Outline - Ocean Circulation 2

10/15/99


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Outline - Ocean Circulation 2

Wind-drive ocean surface currents

Western Intensification - yet another complication

Western Intensification

Differences Between Eastern and Western Boundary Currents

Western intensification -> western boundary curents

Volume of water transported

Western Intensification

Equatorial Surface Currents

Atmospheric Circulation

ITCZ in Pacific

ITCZ in Pacific

ITCZ in Pacific

ITCZ in Pacific

Cross-Section ITCZ in Pacific

Cross-Section ITCZ in Pacific

Equatorial Surface Currents

Upwelling (Divergences) and Downwelling (Convergences)

Sea-floor Sediment Map

Coastal Upwelling

North American Atmospheric Pressure Cells

Eastern North Pacific

California Coastal Currents in Summer

North American Atmospheric Pressure Cells

Western North Atlantic

Warm and Cold Core Ring Development

Eddies

Seasonal change in depth of thermocline in subtropical and temperate regions

Cross-Section of Oceanic Thermocline

Another view of thermocline change with latitude

Thermohaline Circulation

Thermohaline Circulation - Cross-Sectional View

Deep Water Formation

Important Ocean Areas

Thermohaline Circulation - The Ocean Conveyor

Lab slides

Flow through the Straits of Gibralter

Equatorial to polar heat transport and water flow

Temperature-Salinity (density) Diagram

Water Mass Identification from a Temperature-Salinity Diagram

Water Mass Identification from a Temperature-Salinity Diagram

Author: Suzanne O'Connell

Email: someone@microsoft.com

Home Page: http://www.wesleyan.edu/~soconnell/courses/ees106/index.html

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