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Active tracers, 8
Albedo, 18
Availabel potential energy, 46
Available potential energy, 30
Balanced equations, 33
Baroclinic instability, 46
Beta-effect (β-effect), 32
Beta-plane (β-plane), 32
Boussinesq approximation, 43
Brine, 16
Cabbeling, 13
Closure problem, 59
conservative tracer, 15
Convection, 15, 60
Coriolis Force, 26
Coriolis parameter, 27
Dansgaard-Oeschger, 52
Dittmar’s law, 10
Eddies, 46
Eddy viscosity, 60
Ekman layer, 38
Ekman layer thickness, 40
Ekman spiral, 39
Ekman transport, 38
Entrainment, 61, 62
Equation of state, 9
Equatorial β-plane, 49
Equatorial current, 49
Equatorial Rossby radius, 49
Equatorial undercurrent, 49
Geocentric frame, 26
Geostrophic equilibrium, 29
GFD, 33
Gravity currents, 62
Gyre, 35
heat capacity, 13
HMS Challenger, 7, 10
Hydrostatic approximation, 22
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Inertial frequency, 28
Inertial oscillation, 28, 39
K-closure, 59
Kelvin wave, 34
Level of no motion, 44
North equatorial counter current, 49
Passive tracers, 8
Philander and Pacanowski, 61
Planetary potential vorticity, 32, 35, 42
Planetary vorticity, 37
Poincaré waves, 33
potential density, 13
Potential temperature, 10
Potential vorticity, linear, 30
quasi-geostrophic equations, 33
Reduced gravity, 24
Relative vorticity, 37
Richardson number, 61
Rossby number, 46
Rossby number, 28
Rossby radius, 30, 31, 46
Rossby wave, 34
Salinity, 9
Sandström’s Theorem, 55
Sea surface height (SSH), 29
Slow manifold, 33
Solar constant, 17
South equatorial counter current, 50
Sverdrup, 29
Sverdrup relation, 35, 42
T-S diagrams, 11
Temperature, 10
Thermal wind, 44
Thermobaricity, 13
Thermocline, 51
Traditional approximation, 27, 49