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Eddies in Marine Science

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1983

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Editors:
  1. Allan R. Robinson

    1. Division of Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

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Part of the book series: Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (TATM)

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Table of contents (24 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XXV
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Overview and Summary of Eddy Science

      • A. R. Robinson
      Pages 3-15

  3. Regional Kinematics, Dynamics, and Statistics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
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    2. Gulf Stream Rings

      • P. L. Richardson
      Pages 19-45

    3. Western North Atlantic Interior

      • C. Wunsch
      Pages 46-65

    4. The Western North Atlantic - A Lagrangian Viewpoint

      • H. T. Rossby, S. C. Riser, A. J. Mariano
      Pages 66-91

    5. The Local Dynamics of Eddies in the Western North Atlantic

      • J. C. McWilliams, E. D. Brown, H. L. Bryden, C. C. Ebbesmeyer, B. A. Elliott, R. H. Heinmiller et al.
      Pages 92-113

    6. Gulf Stream Variability

      • D. R. Watts
      Pages 114-144

    7. The Northeast Atlantic Ocean

      • W. J. Gould
      Pages 145-157

    8. Eddy Structure of the North Pacific Ocean

      • R. L. Bernstein
      Pages 158-166

    9. Subpolar Gyres and the Arctic Ocean

      • G. T. Needler
      Pages 167-180

    10. Tropical and Equatorial Regions

      • G. Siedler
      Pages 181-199

    11. Eddies in the Indian Ocean

      • J. C. Swallow
      Pages 200-218

    12. The South Pacific Including the East Australian Current

      • A. F. Bennett
      Pages 219-244

    13. Eddies in the Southern Indian Ocean and Agulhas Current

      • M. L. Gründlingh
      Pages 245-264

    14. The Southern Ocean

      • H. L. Bryden
      Pages 265-277

    15. Global Summaries and Intercomparisons: Flow Statistics from Long-Term Current Meter Moorings

      • R. R. Dickson
      Pages 278-353

    16. Global Summary: Review of Eddy Phenomena as Expressed in Temperature Measurements

      • W. J. Emery
      Pages 354-375

  4. Models

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 377-377
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It is now well known that the mid-ocean flow is almost everywhere domi­ nated by so-called synoptic or meso-scale eddies, rotating about nearly vertical axes and extending throughout the water column. A typical mid­ ocean horizontal scale is 100 km and a time scale is 100 days: these meso­ scale eddies have swirl speeds of order 10 cm s -1 which are usually con­ siderably 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. Stock­ man in the 1930's. Measurements from RIV Aries in 1959/60, using the then newly developed neutrally buoyant floats, indicated the main char­ acteristics of the eddies in the deep ocean of the NW Atlantic while a se­ ries 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 At­ lantic and confirmed the existence of an open ocean eddy field and es­ tablished 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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Division of Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

    Allan R. Robinson

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Eddies in Marine Science

  • Editors: Allan R. Robinson

  • Series Title: Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69003-7

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg 1983

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-69005-1Published: 07 December 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-69003-7Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1431-9314

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVI, 612

  • Topics: Geophysics/Geodesy, Oceanography

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