Circulation of the Atmosphere and Ocean

Vocabulary

Circulation of the Atmosphere
  • air mass
  • atmosphere
  • atmospheric circulation cell
  • Bjerknes, Vilhelm
  • climate
  • convection current
  • Coriolis, Gaspard Gustave de
  • Coriolis effect
  • cyclone
  • doldrums
  • extratropical cyclone
  • Ferrel cell
  • front
  • frontal storm
  • geographical equator
  • Hadley cell
  • heat budget
  • horse latitudes
  • hurricane
  • intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ)
  • land breeze
  • meteorological equator
  • monsoon
  • nor'easter (northeaster)
  • polar cell
  • polar front
  • precipitation
  • sea breeze
  • storm
  • storm surge
  • thermal equilibrium
  • tornado
  • trade winds
  • tropical cyclone
  • water vapor
  • weather
  • westerlies
  • wind
Circulation of the Ocean
  • acoustical tomography
  • Anarctic Bottom Water
  • Antarctic Circumpolar Current
  • caballing
  • coastal upwelling
  • contour current
  • convergence zone
  • countercurrent
  • current
  • downwelling
  • eastern boundary current
  • eddy
  • Ekman spiral
  • Ekman transport
  • El Nino
  • ENSO
  • equatorial upwelling
  • float method
  • flow method
  • geostrophic gyre
  • Gulf Stream
  • gyre
  • La Nina
  • Langmuir curculation
  • North Atlantic Deep Water
  • Southern Oscillation
  • surface current
  • sverdrup (sv)
  • temperature-salinity (T-S diagram
  • thermohaline circulation
  • transverse current
  • undercurrent
  • upwelling
  • western boundary current
  • westward intensification
  • West Wind Drift
  • wind-induced vertical circulation

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1 Ocean Currents and Global Weather
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2 Upwelling and El Nino
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