Chapter Fourteen¶
Global circulation and water properties¶
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: Chapter 14 WOA09_global_grid_of_sections
Download: Chapter 14 Global_sections
Download: Chapter 14 WOA98_heavideci_basin_global_gridded_data
Download: Chapter 14 WOA_decimated_basin_global_gridded_data
Download: Chapter 14 WOA_basin_global_gridded_data
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:
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  |