Ocean currents: physical drivers in a changing world

by Marsh, Robert

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Title Statements

Full title :Ocean currents : physical drivers in a changing world / Robert Marsh, Erik van Sebille.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2021

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Elsevier
Place of Publication:Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Language:eng
Publication Date:2021

The Physical Object

Description:xiv, 538 pages ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0128160594, 9780128160596
oclc:on1150955503
LC Classification:GC231.2
Dewey Decimal:551.46/2

1. Introduction to ocean currents -- basic principles of cause and effect, measurement and modelling tools, etc. 2. Global gyres/Ekman drift -- slow background flows and evolution/plastics/volcanic pumice/tsunami debris 3. Global western boundary currents and life -- swift flows and marine life; dispersal of turtle hatchlings 4. Global eastern boundary currents and life -- European Slope Current; Californian, Humboldt and Benguela Currents; links to upwelling and shifting ecosystems 5. Currents near the Equator and fast trans-basin flows -- links to tropical climate variability (especially El Nino) 6. Connecting Oceans with upper ocean flows -- Agulhas and Tasman leakage (connecting Pacific, Indian and Atlantic Oceans) 7. Polar currents, icebergs and sea ice -- the Antarctic Coastal Current and the Labrador Current (conveying icebergs); the East Greenland Current (and sea ice) 8. Connecting shallow (warm) and deep (cold) currents with climate -- the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation; the global Conveyor Belt circulation 9. Seasonal flows in shallow shelf seas (around the world) and implications for pollution/biology 10. Indigenous (ancient) kno…