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Index
Warm-core eddies, 53, 356
WARM-ENPO province, 328
Warm-water benthic fauna, 20
Water, exchange of, 35
Water column photosynthesis, role of, 4
Wave height, from returned radar pulses, 6
Weather systems, 103
Weddell, marginal seas, 443
Weddell sea, 116, 144
WEPOCS surveys, 374
West wind drift (WWD), 410
Western india coastal province, 278
Western India coastal province (INDW),
303–308
continental shelf topography and tidal and
shelf-edge fronts, 304
defining characteristics of regional
oceanography, 304–305
extent of province, 303–304
regional benthic and demersal ecology, 307
regional response of the pelagic
ecosystem, 305
synopsis, 308
Western Pacific warm pool province
(WARM), 373–378
defining characteristics of regional
oceanography, 373–374
extent of province, 373
regional response of the pelagic ecosystem,
375–378
synopsis, 377–378
Western tropical Atlantic province (WTRA),
193–200
defining characteristics of regional
oceanography, 194–196
extent of province, 193
response of pelagic ecosystems, 196
synopsis, 200
White, George, 10, 107
Wind speed, from returned radar pulses, 6
Wind stress, 95
as kinetic energy at low latitudes, 56
as potential energy at high latitudes, 56
seasonal changes in, 56
turbulence and mixing by, 56
Winter-spring production, with nutrient
limitation, 65
WOCE and JGOFS, 5
WOCE data, to support climate modeling, 4
Woods, John, 165
World ocean circulation experiment
(WOCE), 3
WTRA and ETRA, 129
Y
Yangtse plume, 420
Yangtse river, 420
Yellow sea, ecosystem of, 421
Yellowfin, distribution of, 112
Yoldia hyperborea community, 155
Yucatan channel, 188
Z
Zonal INDOPAC, 351
Zone of anoxia, 308
Zooplankton
herbivores, 46
production of, 153
relative composition of, 92
Zooplankton abundance
within epiplankton, 47
within pycnocline, 47