New Developments in Mode-Water Research Dynamic and Climatic Effects /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kubokawa, Atsushi. (Editor), Xie, Shang-Ping. (Editor), Kobashi, Fumiaki. (Editor), Mitsudera, Humio. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Geography.; Meteorology.; Oceanography.; Physical geography.; Earth Sciences.; Environmental Physics.; Meteorology/Climatology.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54162-2

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...

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.