
The South Atlantic
Present and Past Circulation
Springer (Publisher)
Published on 17. December 1996
Book
Hardback
X, 644 pages
978-3-540-62079-2 (ISBN)
Description
This text presents the results of recent projects in oceanography and marine geosciences (WOCE, JOGFS, PAGES ODP) regarding the present and past circulation in the South Atlantic. The objective of the text is to integrate results from both oceanography and geological studies. The central theme of the geological investigations is the reconstruction of current and productivity systems in the South Atlantic during late Quaternary.
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"...comprehensive, well-written, superbly illustrated, thoroughly documented and it will no doubt constitute a landmark in our understanding of the South Atlantic oceanography. It will have its place in all specialized libraries." Bulletin de la Societe belge de GeologieMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Heidelberg
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
42
34 farbige Abbildungen, 42 s/w Tabellen
34 colour illustrations, 42 black & white tables, biography
Dimensions
Height: 27 cm
Width: 19.3 cm
Weight
1700 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-540-62079-2 (9783540620792)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-80353-6
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Content
Central Themes of South Atlantic Circulation.- On the Circulation of the South Atlantic Ocean.- Transient-Tracer Information on Ventilation and Transport of South Atlantic Waters.- The Circulation and its Variability of the South Atlantic Ocean: First Results from the TOPEX/POSEIDON Mission.- The Zonal WOCE Sections in the South Atlantic.- South Atlantic Heat Transport at 11°S.- Comment on the South Atlantic's Role in the Global Circulation 121 -.- The Exchange of Water between the South Indian and South Atlantic Oceans.- The Benguela: Large Scale Features and Processes and System Variability.- The Southern Boundary of the South Atlantic.- Antarctic Intermediate Water in the South Atlantic.- Lagrangian Measurements in the Malvinas Current.- Circulation in the Deep Brazil Basin.- The Deep Water Regime in the Equatorial.- Chlorofluoromethanes in the Deep Equatorial Atlantic Revisited.- Modelling the Ocean Circulation in the South Atlantic: A Strategy for Dealing with Open Boundaries.- Mass and Heat Transports in the South Atlantic Derived from Historical Hydrographic Data.- Long-term Observation of Particle Fluxes in the Eastern Atlantic: Seasonality, Changes of Flux with Depth and Comparison with the Sediment Record.- Silica Signals in the South Atlantic.- On the Bathymetry of the Hunter Channel.- Expeditions into the Past: Paleoceanographic Studies in the South Atlantic.- Inverse Modelling of the Glacial Atlantic CirculationSystem: Investigation of Data Requirements.- Chemical Hydrography of the South Atlantic During the Last Glacial Maximum: Cd vs. ?13C.- High Latitude Deep Water Sources During the Last Glacial Maximum and the Intensity of the Global Oceanic Circulation.- Late Quaternary Surface Circulation in the South Atlantic: The Stable Isotope Record and implications for Heat Transport and Productivity.- Climate Feedback and Pleistocene Variations in the Atlantic South Equatorial Current.- Late Quaternary Surface Temperatures and Productivity in the East-Equatorial South Atlantic: Response to Changes in Trade/Monsoon Wind Forcing and Surface Water Advection.- Late Quaternary Movements of the Angola- Benguela Front, SE Atlantic, and Implications for Advection in the Equatorial Ocean.- Late Quaternary Deep Circulation in the Western Equatorial Atlantic.- Late Quaternary Deep Water Circulation in the South Atlantic: Reconstruction from Carbonate Dissolution and Benthic Stable Isotopes.- Clay Mineral Fluctuations in Late Quaternary Sediments of the Southeastern South Atlantic: Implications for Past Changes of Deep Water Advection.