2 Peter B. Rhines GFD-1 Slides - winter 2004 january sea level - - PDF document

2 peter b rhines gfd 1 slides winter 2004 january sea
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2 Peter B. Rhines GFD-1 Slides - winter 2004 january sea level - - PDF document

2 Peter B. Rhines GFD-1 Slides - winter 2004 january sea level pressure July sea level pressure Dynamic height-1000mb vs. latitude..curves for different longitudes 1 January 2003 (strongly varies east-west) northern summer Dynamic


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GFD-1 Slides - 2 Peter B. Rhines winter 2004

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january sea level pressure

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July sea level pressure

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northern summer Dynamic height-1000mb vs. latitude..curves for different longitudes 1 January 2003 (strongly varies east-west)

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Dynamic height vs. latitude, zonally averaged for day 1 (blue) and day 180 (red) of 2003...range from 0 to 35 km altitude latitude

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Hsu+Wallace MWR 76

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pressure at the North Pole through the year 2003 52.5N zonal average dynamic height 2003

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While readily carried by two people, the 52kg gliders must be handled carefully, particularly at sea.

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Glider 008 shows the cold shelf water near Fyllas Bank (left) and as it moved down the continental slope passed the warm Irminger Current water (profles 9-12). Near profiles 21-30 it was twirled by a warm anticyclonic eddy with strong currents (next slide) The horizontal sampling density of the saw-tooth path averages 3 km; ship-borne hydrographic sections have typical sampling density of 50 to 100km

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Two Seagliders launched by UW oceanography, 2 Oct 2004 from Nuuk, west Greenland

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TOPEX/Poseidon sea surface height anomaly, corresponding to geostrophic upper ocean circulation (minus its time-average): Rossby waves and synoptic scale eddies, equatorial upwelling/zonal jets, eddies marking the paths of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, Gulf Stream and Kuroshio..and much more.