New Developments in Mode-Water Research Dynamic and Climatic Effects

New Developments in Mode-Water Research Dynamic and Climatic Effects / edited by Atsushi Kubokawa, Shang-Ping Xie, Fumiaki Kobashi, Humio Mitsudera.

This book consists of the articles from the special issue of “New developments in mode-water research: Dynamic and climatic effects” in the Journal of Oceanography, Vol. 68 No. 1, 2012, comprising 10 chapters that cover a wide spectrum of topics. Topics range from the formation, circulation, and var...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Kubokawa, Atsushi (Editor), Xie, Shang-Ping (Editor), Kobashi, Fumiaki (Editor), Mitsudera, Humio (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Edition:1st ed. 2013.
Series:Springer Oceanography,
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Oceanography.
Environmental sciences.
Atmospheric sciences.
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Table of Contents:
  • Progress of North Pacific Mode Water Research in the Past Decade
  • Review on North Pacific Subtropical Countercurrents and Subtropical Fronts: Rold of Mode Waters in Ocean Circulation and Climate
  • New Perspectives on Eighteen-Degree Water Formation in the North Atlantic
  • Mixed Layer Depth Front and Subduction of Low Potential Vorticity Water under Seasonal Forcings in an Idealized OGCM
  • The Role of Meso-Scale Eddies in Mixed Layer Deepening and Mode Water Formation in the Western North Pacific
  • Roles of Mode Waters in the Formation and Maintenance of Central Water in the North Pacific
  • Interannual Variations of the Hawaiian Lee Countercurrent Induced by Potential Vorticity Variablitiy in the Subsurface
  • Interannual Variability of the North Pacific Subtropical Countercurrent: Role of Locan Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction
  • Response of the North Pacific Subtropical Countercurrent and Its Variability to Global Warming
  • Interannual Variations in Low Potential Vorticity Water and the Subtropical Countercurrent in an Eddy-Resolving OGCM.

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