Ocean Currents Over the Continental Slope

摘要: Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the different aspects of ocean currents over continental slope. Continental slopes underlie some 12% world ocean's surface area. Their importance to circulation is out proportion, since most major flow them and are in various ways affected by their topography. Superimposed on typical upwelling regime variations strength alongshore response changes wind stress. Coastal driven density differences due river runoff common shelves but reach upper slope only a few places. Strong cooling, absence significant salinity contrasts, produces cold heavy coastal waters, opposite freshening case. Shallow water cools off rapidly, as its temperature also becomes uniform thermal convection, tends underflow less completely cooled deeper water. It found that fundamental effect examined above turns up guise if angular momentum balance fluid column fixed space considered instead vorticity, allowing for external torques well torque advection.