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as an accumulation of warm water that eventually changes atmospheric circulation
and triggers the next event.
Which are your favorite own publications?
These are the thermohaline circulation from 1961
33 , and the deep sea basins, the
oxygen minima from 1962
34 . Then I would mention the Peru current, which linked
the horizontal and vertical movement in a very large area of the ocean.
35 Then you
have the Indian of the Ocean Atlas and the analyses of the Indian Ocean circulation
and with that came the Indian Ocean jet.
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Letter from Hank Stommel
From Wyrtki, 1963, Bull. Scripps Inst. Oceanogr.
What about your Baltic studies?
The Baltic study was an important piece of work for me, it was an effort to understand
the water budget of a small sea that has sufficient information, and to understand
both the annual cycle of exchange and the fact that this annual cycle was basically
wind driven.
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33 Wyrtki, K., 1961: The thermohaline circulation in relation to general circulation in the oceans. Deep-Sea
Res., 8 (1), 39–64.
34 Wyrtki, K., 1962: The oxygen minima in relation to ocean circulation. Deep-Sea Res., 9, 11–23.
35 Wyrtki, K., 1963. The horizontal and vertical field of motion in the Peru Current. Bull. Scripps Inst.
Oceanogr. Univ. Calif., 8 (4), 313–346.
36 Wyrtki, K., 1973: An equatorial jet in the Indian Ocean. Science, 181, 262–264.
37 Wyrtki, K., 1954: Schwankungen im Wasserhaushalt der Ostsee. Dtsch. Hydrogr. Z., 7 (3/4),
91–129.