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Ocean currents : physical drivers in a changing world / Robert Marsh, Erik van Sebille.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marsh, Robert, author.
- Sebille, Erik van, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ocean currents.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 538 pages.)
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam, The Netherlands ; Cambridge, MA : Elsevier, [2021]
- Contents:
- 1. Introduction to ocean currents
- basic principles of cause and effect, measurement and modelling tools, etc.<br>2. Global gyres/Ekman drift
- slow background flows and evolution/plastics/volcanic pumice/tsunami debris<br>3. Global western boundary currents and life
- swift flows and marine life; dispersal of turtle hatchlings<br>4. Global eastern boundary currents and life
- European Slope Current; Californian, Humboldt and Benguela Currents; links to upwelling and shifting ecosystems<br>5. Currents near the Equator and fast trans-basin flows
- links to tropical climate variability (especially El Nino)<br>6. Connecting Oceans with upper ocean flows
- Agulhas and Tasman leakage (connecting Pacific, Indian and Atlantic Oceans)<br>7. Polar currents, icebergs and sea ice
- the Antarctic Coastal Current and the Labrador Current (conveying icebergs); the East Greenland Current (and sea ice)<br>8. Connecting shallow (warm) and deep (cold) currents with climate
- the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation; the global Conveyor Belt circulation<br>9. Seasonal flows in shallow shelf seas (around the world) and implications for pollution/biology<br>10. Indigenous (ancient) knowledge of ocean currents
- e.g., colonisation of Australia, Polynesia<br>11. Utility of ocean currents for seafarers in recorded history
- e.g., use of Gulf Stream for trans-Atlantic trade<br>12. Research Challenges and the Future
- How might new technologies help us to develop a more complete understanding of ocean currents? How might currents change with climate, how might they change climate?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Amsterdam Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780128160602 (electronic bk.)
- 0128160608 (electronic bk.)
- Publisher Number:
- 99993754073
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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