Circuits i subsistemes a l'oceà Atlàntic

Abstract

We will discuss the main thermocline connections in the Atlantic Ocean: the subantarctic waters entering the South Atlantic Ocean, the transfer of subantarctic and South-Atlantic waters to the tropical ocean, the equatorial jets and tropical/subtropical cells, the subtropical thermocline circulation and shadow zones in both hemispheres, and the quite different character in the fate of western boundary currents in the South and North Atlantic Oceans. These distinct thermocline regions, each of them with unique characteristics, are interpreted as subsystems of the pulmonary circuit of a living ocean