Book: Geophysical Flows (Omta)
- Page ID
- 1269
Front Matter
- 1: General concept- Newton's 2nd law
- 2: Pressure Gradients
- 3: The Coriolis Force
- 4: Turbulent Diffusion
- 5: Geostrophic Balance
- 6: Wind Stress
- 7: Basis of Wind-Driven Circulation - Ekman spiral and transports
- 8: Ocean Currents - Subtropical (and subpolar) Gyres
- 9: Vorticity
- 10: Ocean currents- Antarctic Circumpolar Current
- 11: Ocean currents- Equatorial Currents
Back Matter
Thumbnail: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. Image used with permission (Public Domain; NASA)
Contributors
Dr. Anne Willem Omta (MIT)