Ocean Convection and Deep Water Circulation
The global oceanic thermohaline circulation (conveyor belt circulation) is driven at high latitudes through convection, the sinking of dense waters to great depths. The link between the convection itself and the large-scale circulation follows a cascade of processes on different spatial and temporal...
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ftdatacite:10.3203/iwf/c-1904eng 2023-05-15T16:27:27+02:00 Ocean Convection and Deep Water Circulation Backhaus, Jan O. Quadfasel, Detlef Hainbucher, Dagmar 1995 https://dx.doi.org/10.3203/iwf/c-1904eng https://av.tib.eu/media/23350 en eng IWF (Göttingen) Earth Sciences oceanography climate research convection Greenland sea deep water circulation sea convection convection, oceanic circulation, thermo-haline atmosphere / sea convection North Atlantic measurement techniques, oceanography CreativeWork article 1995 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.3203/iwf/c-1904eng 2021-11-05T12:55:41Z The global oceanic thermohaline circulation (conveyor belt circulation) is driven at high latitudes through convection, the sinking of dense waters to great depths. The link between the convection itself and the large-scale circulation follows a cascade of processes on different spatial and temporal scales. Convection is intermittent and the sinking plumes are only a few hundred metres wide and have a life time of a few hours. The combined action of many plumes form, under the influence of the earth's rotation, meso-scale eddies of several kilometres width. Many of these again form the pool of newly formed water that subsequently spreads in the world oceans. The video explains this chain of scales leading from convection to the global ocean circulation, using results from numerical simulations and from observations made during a cruise of RV Valdivia in the Greenland Sea in winter 1994. Article in Journal/Newspaper Greenland Greenland Sea North Atlantic DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Greenland |
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Earth Sciences oceanography climate research convection Greenland sea deep water circulation sea convection convection, oceanic circulation, thermo-haline atmosphere / sea convection North Atlantic measurement techniques, oceanography Backhaus, Jan O. Quadfasel, Detlef Hainbucher, Dagmar Ocean Convection and Deep Water Circulation |
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The global oceanic thermohaline circulation (conveyor belt circulation) is driven at high latitudes through convection, the sinking of dense waters to great depths. The link between the convection itself and the large-scale circulation follows a cascade of processes on different spatial and temporal scales. Convection is intermittent and the sinking plumes are only a few hundred metres wide and have a life time of a few hours. The combined action of many plumes form, under the influence of the earth's rotation, meso-scale eddies of several kilometres width. Many of these again form the pool of newly formed water that subsequently spreads in the world oceans. The video explains this chain of scales leading from convection to the global ocean circulation, using results from numerical simulations and from observations made during a cruise of RV Valdivia in the Greenland Sea in winter 1994. |
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Article in Journal/Newspaper |
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Backhaus, Jan O. Quadfasel, Detlef Hainbucher, Dagmar |
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Backhaus, Jan O. Quadfasel, Detlef Hainbucher, Dagmar |
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Backhaus, Jan O. |
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Ocean Convection and Deep Water Circulation |
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Ocean Convection and Deep Water Circulation |
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Ocean Convection and Deep Water Circulation |
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Ocean Convection and Deep Water Circulation |
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Ocean Convection and Deep Water Circulation |
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ocean convection and deep water circulation |
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IWF (Göttingen) |
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1995 |
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Greenland Greenland Sea North Atlantic |
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Greenland Greenland Sea North Atlantic |
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