Overview
Provides new approaches for oceanographic study
Offers new methods in analysis of climate data
Postulates new concepts of signal analysis, including radius of signals and heaving ratio
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This book is focused on fundamental aspects of climate variability in the ocean, in particular changes of the wind-driven circulation. The vertical movement of isopycnal (isothermal) layers, including their stretching and compression, is called heaving and stretching. A major part of climate variability in the ocean is heaving in nature. Heave is primarily associated with the adiabatic motions of isopycnal layers due to change of wind stress. It is rather difficult to separate the contributions from adiabatic and diabatic processes.
Isopycnal analysis has been widely used in climate study; however, it is much more accurate to study the isopycnal layers. Here climate signals are examined in terms of changes of layer depth, layer thickness, layer temperature/salinity, spicity and others.
In addition to the traditional Theta-S diagram, the sigma-pi (potential density – potential spicity) diagram can also be used in analyzing water mass property distribution and climate variability. In fact, a radius of signal can be defined rigorously for signals in the sigma-pi diagram; the combination of isopycnal analysis and evaluation of radius of signal provides a powerful tool in analyzing climate variability in the world oceans.
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Book Title: Heaving, Stretching and Spicing Modes
Book Subtitle: Climate Variability in the Ocean
Authors: Rui Xin Huang
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2941-2
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Higher Education Press and Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-2940-5Published: 21 August 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-2943-6Published: 21 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-2941-2Published: 20 August 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 391
Number of Illustrations: 51 b/w illustrations, 359 illustrations in colour
Topics: Oceanography, Atmospheric Sciences, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts