Index
adjustment time, 207
advective time scale, 53
ageostrophic flow, 367
Agulhas Current, 33
altimetry, 89
Amundsen basin, 354
Antarctic Bottom Water, 15, 35, 331
Antarctic Circumpolar Current, 35
Antarctic Intermediate Water, 331
Antarctic Intermediate Water , 331
Arctic Basin, 355
Arctic Ocean Boundary Current, 357
ARGO, 9
AVHRR, 9
baroclinic vector, 75
barotropic streamfunction, 340
barotropic flow, 75
barotropic vorticity equation, 121, 146
bathymetry, 4
Bessel function, 211
bifurcation diagram, 386
Bond cycle, 41
bottom form stress, 341
bottom stress, 369
bottom topography, 336
Brazil Current, 33
buoyancy frequency, 19, 24, 56, 177
buoyancy time scale, 56
Burger number, 60
cabelling, 25
Canada basin, 354
Challenger expedition, 8, 11
circumglobal flow, 323
CLIVAR, 9
cold tongue, 246
complex growth factor, 223, 388
continental slope, 4
convective feedback, 391
Coriolis acceleration, 54
Dansgaard Oeschger cycle, 41
delayed oscillator, 284
double-gyre flow, 147
Drake Passage, 330
Eady model, 226
East Greenland Current, 371
eddy diffusivity, 57
eddy viscosity, 57
Eemian, 379
Ekman layer
Arctic, 362
equatorial, 252, 282
midlatitude, 109
planetary, 304
Ekman number
equatorial, 252
midlatitude, 59, 182
planetary, 301
equation of state, 20, 300
Equatorial Counter Current, 272
equatorial heat content, 278
equatorial two-strip model, 287
Equatorial Under Current, 272
Ertel’s theorem, 78
evaporation, 30
external Rossby deformation radius, 60
Fofonoff inertial flow, 153
Fram Strait, 354, 372
freezing point, 13
frictional time scale, 58
Froude number, 60, 182
geostrophic contours, 345, 351, 359
geostrophic streamfunction, 121
geostrophic velocities, 195
GRIP ice core, 379
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