Index
Abyssal circulation, 20
Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP),
54–55, 56–57, 58f, 69
Acoustic thermometry of ocean climate (ATOC),
131–33, 134
Acoustic tomography. See Ocean acoustic
tomography
Acrivos, A., 46
Adamec, David, 110
ADCP. See Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler
Agnew, Spiro, 108
Agulhas Current, 2, 3
Agulhas Retroflection, 6
Agulhas Rings, 3, 6
Air Force, U.S., 186
Air-sea interaction, 53–56, 68–69
ALACE. See Autonomous Lagrangian Circulation
Explorer
Alexander Agassiz (R/V), 123
Allen, John, 110
Altimetric measurements, 125, 133, 185–86
Amatek-Straza, 54
American Meteorological Society (AMS), 115
Amy Chouest (ship), 130
Anderson, David, 34, 110, 112
Anderson, G. C., 170, 175
Anderson, S. P., 69
Antarctica, 128, 166
Antarctic Bottom Water, 9
Antarctic Circumpolar Current, 3, 175
Antarctic Circumpolar front, 131
Antarctic Intermediate Water, 37, 171,
172
Anticyclonic gyres, 167–68, 173, 174
Antilles Current, 168
Antisubmarine warfare (ASW), 125–26
AOML. See Atlantic Oceanographic Marine
Laboratory
Arabian Sea, 71
Arakawa, Akia, 32
Arctic Ocean, 4, 134, 166
Argo, 52, 62, 63, 70, 133, 134, 199
Aries (ketch), 47, 50
Aristotle, 2, 10
Atlantic-Indian Ocean exchange, 171
Atlantic Ocean, 11, 18, 95, 158, 172, 175. See also
North Atlantic Ocean; South Atlantic Ocean
acoustic tomography and, 134
data collection in, 166
dynamic calculations in, 8
geopotential anomaly and, 172, 173, 174
surface currents of, 3
surface heat fluxes in, 72
water properties, 4, 5, 6
Atlantic Oceanographic Marine Laboratory
(AOML), 85, 86
ATLAS. See Autonomous Temperature Line
Acquisition System
ATOC. See Acoustic thermometry of ocean
climate
Autonomous Lagrangian Circulation Explorer
(ALACE), 59–62, 185
239