Ocean currents : physical drivers in a changing world /: physical drivers in a changing world. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Robert Marsh, Erik van Sebille.
• Authors: Marsh, Robert; Sebille, Erik van
• Contents: 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) knowledge of ocean currents - e.g., colonisation of Australia, Polynesia; 11. Utility of ocean currents for seafarers in recorded history - e.g., use of Gulf Stream for trans-Atlantic trade; 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?
• Publisher Details: Amsterdam : Elsevier
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 551.462; Ocean currents
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780128160602
• Related ISBNs: 9780128160596
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