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