Chapter Fourteen ================ Global circulation and water properties --------------------------------------- .. admonition:: Data files supplied for Chapter 14 exercises * WOA09_global_grid_of_sections: → * WOA09_zonal_sections_every_5_degrees: → * WOA09_lat\_-0.5.jos * WOA09_lat\_-5.5.jos * WOA09_lat\_-10.5.jos * WOA09_lat\_-15.5.jos * WOA09_lat\_-20.5.jos * WOA09_lat\_-25.5.jos * WOA09_lat\_-30.5.jos * WOA09_lat\_-35.5.jos * WOA09_lat\_-40.5.jos * WOA09_lat\_-45.5.jos * WOA09_lat\_-50.5.jos * WOA09_lat\_-55.5.jos * WOA09_lat\_-60.5.jos * WOA09_lat\_-65.5.jos * WOA09_lat\_-70.5.jos * WOA09_lat\_-75.5.jos * WOA09_lat\_-80.5.jos * WOA09_lat_5.5.jos * WOA09_lat_10.5.jos * WOA09_lat_15.5.jos * WOA09_lat_20.5.jos * WOA09_lat_25.5.jos * WOA09_lat_30.5.jos * WOA09_lat_35.5.jos * WOA09_lat_40.5.jos * WOA09_lat_45.5.jos * WOA09_lat_50.5.jos * WOA09_lat_55.5.jos * WOA09_lat_60.5.jos * WOA09_lat_65.5.jos * WOA09_lat_70.5.jos * WOA09_lat_75.5.jos * WOA09_lat_80.5.jos * WOA09_lat_85.5.jos * WOA09_meridional_sections_every_10_degrees: → * WOA09_lon\_-10.5.jos * WOA09_lon\_-20.5.jos * WOA09_lon\_-30.5.jos * WOA09_lon\_-40.5.jos * WOA09_lon\_-50.5.jos * WOA09_lon\_-60.5.jos * WOA09_lon\_-70.5.jos * WOA09_lon\_-80.5.jos * WOA09_lon\_-90.5.jos * WOA09_lon\_-100.5.jos * WOA09_lon\_-110.5.jos * WOA09_lon\_-120.5.jos * WOA09_lon\_-130.5.jos * WOA09_lon\_-140.5.jos * WOA09_lon\_-150.5.jos * WOA09_lon\_-160.5.jos * WOA09_lon\_-170.5.jos * WOA09_lon_10.5.jos * WOA09_lon_20.5.jos * WOA09_lon_30.5.jos * WOA09_lon_40.5.jos * WOA09_lon_50.5.jos * WOA09_lon_60.5.jos * WOA09_lon_70.5.jos * WOA09_lon_80.5.jos * WOA09_lon_90.5.jos * WOA09_lon_100.5.jos * WOA09_lon_110.5.jos * WOA09_lon_120.5.jos * WOA09_lon_130.5.jos * WOA09_lon_140.5.jos * WOA09_lon_150.5.jos * WOA09_lon_160.5.jos * WOA09_lon_170.5.jos * Global_sections: → * Grand_Tour_2_Documentation.pdf * Ocean_Grand_Tour_2_bottle.joa * Ocean_Grand_Tour_2_CTD.joa * WBUC_NADW_section_bottle.joa * WOA98_heavideci_basin_global_gridded_data: → * WOA98_heavydeci_Global.joa * WOA_decimated_basin_global_gridded_data: → * WOA09_decimated_Global.jos * WOA_basin_global_gridded_data: → * WOA05_Global.joa Download: :download:`Chapter 14 WOA09_global_grid_of_sections <./WOA09_global_grid_of_sections.7z>` Download: :download:`Chapter 14 Global_sections <./Global_sections.7z>` Download: :download:`Chapter 14 WOA98_heavideci_basin_global_gridded_data <./WOA98_heavideci_basin_global_gridded_data.7z>` Download: :download:`Chapter 14 WOA_decimated_basin_global_gridded_data <./WOA_decimated_basin_global_gridded_data.7z>` Download: :download:`Chapter 14 WOA_basin_global_gridded_data <./WOA_basin_global_gridded_data.7z>` Goals ````` * Understand the water masses, circulation and other aspects of descriptive physical oceanography of the Global Ocean & its marginal seas To accomplish this, one will: ````````````````````````````` * Learn to extract data subsets from map plots * Learn how to use advanced JOA tools for working with basin-scale data sets Tools ````` * JOA Section Editor * Interpolations Options dialog box DPO Chapter 14 Sections ``````````````````````` DPO JOA examples are available for the following **emphasized** sections: .. list-table:: :widths: 10, 90 * - **14.1** - **Global circulation** * - **14.1.1** - **Upper ocean circulation systems** * - **14.1.2** - **Intermediate and deep circulation** * - **14.2** - **Global mass transports and overturning circulation** * - **14.2.1** - **Mass transports in layers into closed regions** * - **14.2.2** - **Upwelling and downwelling** * - **14.2.3** - **Meridional overturning streamfunction** * - **14.2.4** - **Overturning circulation schematics** * - 14.3 - Heat and freshwater transports and ocean circulation * - **14.4** - **Global property distributions** * - **14.4.1** - **Sea level** * - **14.4.2** - **Water mass distributions** * - 14.5 - Eddy variability and diffusivity * - 14.5.1 - Eddy energy and lateral eddy diffusivity distributions * - 14.5.2 - Observed scales, speeds and coherence of eddy variability * - 14.5.3 - Diapycnal diffusion and near-inertial motion * - **14.6** - **Climate and the global ocean**