'Water masses' presentation slideshows

Physical Oceanography

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???? Seawater in motion

???? Seawater in motion. ?? wave ?? tide ?? oceanic current. ?????. Shallow surface mixed zone (upper 450 m) mixed by wind and currents Uniformly warm Generally higher salinity (surface evaporation) Transition zone (< 1500 m thick)

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A Coupled Ice-Ocean Model Based on ROMS/TOMS 2.0 W. Paul Budgell Institute of Marine Research and

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Feature Oriented Regional Modeling System -- FORMS: An Overview

Feature Oriented Regional Modeling System -- FORMS: An Overview. Avijit Gangopadhyay University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Email: avijit@umassd.edu Funded by NASA and ONR. OUTLINE. Feature Oriented Regional Modeling System (FORMS) Concept -- Initialization/Synthesis Methodology

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ENVIRONMENTAL AND OCEAN TEMPERATURES Robert Perry

ENVIRONMENTAL AND OCEAN TEMPERATURES Robert Perry. TEMPERATURE IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS GOVERNING THE DISTRIBUTION OF LIFE ON EARTH. TEMPERATURE RECORDS ARE THE BACKBONE OF MOST ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH STUDIES. Summer in the northern hemisphere. At

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Removal of moisture and heat

Removal of moisture and heat. upwelling. 1. Ocean Conveyor Belt. 1 Sv = 10 6 m 3 /s. 1. 5. 5. 10. 2. (From Broecker, 1990). 3. (From Broecker, 1990). 4. MAIN WATER MASSES IN THE OCEAN. Greenland Sea. Norwegian Sea. Labrador Sea. 5. From Pinet (1998).

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Ocean Circulation

Ocean Circulation. Currents. Currents. Horizontally Vertically. The Forces That Drive Currents. Primary forces Starts water movement and determine its velocity Stress of wind Secondary forces Influence the direction and nature of flow Coriolis effect gravity friction

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Thermohaline Circulation

Thermohaline Circulation. Lecture 16. OEAS-604. November 16, 2011. Outline: Overview of deep circulation Key Water Masses Formation of Deep Water Theory of Deep Circulation Importance of Deep Circulation to Climate.

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Evaluation of atmospheric correction algorithms for MODIS Aqua in coastal regions

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Evapotranspiration

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Mediterranean Water

Mediterranean Water. Mediterranean water in the Atlantic, Levantine Intermediate Water (LIW), Adriatic/ Ionian/ West Mediterranean deep water. Table of content. Seas at stake Mediterranean Water Circulations in the Mediterranean Sea.

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ACIDIFICATION RATES OF ICELAND SEA WATER MASSES

ACIDIFICATION RATES OF ICELAND SEA WATER MASSES .

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Ocean circulation and water mass transformation beneath Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf:

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Round table session #2: PS2b

Round table session #2: PS2b. PS2b aims at better defining : TT04 : Sounding the ocean Partially TTO5 : Measuring air-sea fluxes Partially TTO6 : Measuring land-sea fluxes. Main objectives : Define the instruments that need to be deployed in sites/supersites or the research platforms needed

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Assimilation of S(T) from ARGO

Assimilation of S(T) from ARGO. Keith Haines, Arthur Vidard * , Xiaobing Zhou, Alberto Troccoli * , David Anderson * Environmental Systems Science Centre, (ESSC) Reading University * ECMWF. Surface Freshening. Surface Warming. T/S relations and air-sea fluxes. Bindoff and McDougall (1994).

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Science Class Connect Rules

Science Class Connect Rules. Respect the classroom and our privileges Do not pollute the chat box Stay on topic Science class connects are not free chat sessions Respect the teacher and your peers Be appropriate and use good language Be kind to others

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ASPIRE

ASPIRE. Amundsen Sea Polynya International Research Expedition. ASPIRE. Amundsen Sea Polynya International Research Expedition. A regularly occurring polynya just off the Dotson Ice Shelf. http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~sharons/animAS_bymon.html. ASPIRE. Arrigo & Dikjen 2003.

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By Lilly And Zara

Evaporative Separation. By Lilly And Zara. What is evaporation good for?. Evaporation is good for separating Water from salt water Water from muddy water Water from mixtures Separating things from one another. Experiments for you to try. Evaporation Aim: To separate salt from water.

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RX antenna

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