Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Notation
- PART I FUNDAMENTALS OF GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS
- PART II WAVES, INSTABILITIES AND TURBULENCE
- PART III LARGE-SCALE ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION
- PART IV LARGE-SCALE OCEANIC CIRCULATION
- 19 Wind-Driven Gyres
- 20 Structure of the Upper Ocean
- 21 The Meridional Overturning Circulation and the acc
- 22 Equatorial Circulation and El Niño
- References
- Index
20 - Structure of the Upper Ocean
from PART IV - LARGE-SCALE OCEANIC CIRCULATION
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 June 2017
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Notation
- PART I FUNDAMENTALS OF GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS
- PART II WAVES, INSTABILITIES AND TURBULENCE
- PART III LARGE-SCALE ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION
- PART IV LARGE-SCALE OCEANIC CIRCULATION
- 19 Wind-Driven Gyres
- 20 Structure of the Upper Ocean
- 21 The Meridional Overturning Circulation and the acc
- 22 Equatorial Circulation and El Niño
- References
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid DynamicsFundamentals and Large-Scale Circulation, pp. 761 - 800Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2017