Foreword |
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Preface |
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Units, notation and abbreviations |
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1 A Few Bases of Descriptive and Physical Oceanography |
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1.1 The Size of the Ocean |
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1.2 Salinity, Temperature and Density: The Basic Parameters of the Oceanographer |
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1.3 Vertical Structure of the Ocean |
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1.4 The Main Water Masses |
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1.5.1 Surface Circulation |
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1.5.2 The Physical Principles |
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1.5.3 The Wind-Driven Ocean Circulation |
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1.5.6 Geostrophic Currents |
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1.6 Large-Scale Circulation |
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1.6.3 The Intensification of the Western Boundary Currents |
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1.6.4 Eddies and Recirculation |
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1.6.5 The Thermocline Ventilation |
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1.6.6 The Equatorial Circulation |
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1.6.7 The Deep Circulation |
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Appendix 1: The Atmospheric Forcing |
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2 Seawater Is More than Salted Water |
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2.1 Why Is Seawater Salty? |
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2.1.1 The Chemical Composition of Salt |
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2.1.3 Rivers and Estuaries |
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2.1.5 Volcanic and Hydrothermal Processes |
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2.1.6 The Removal of Chemical Elements |
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2.2 Concept of Conservative and Non-Conservative Tracers |
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2.3 The Nutrient Cycle and the Role of Biological Activity |
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2.3.1 Nutrient Profiles in Seawater |
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2.3.2 The Life Cycles in the Ocean |
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2.3.3 Influence of Deep Circulation on the Nutrient Distribution |
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2.4.1 Definition of Apparent Oxygen Utilisation |
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2.5 Relationships between the Different Tracers |
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2.5.1 Extracting the Conservative Fraction of a Tracer |
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2.5.2 Construction of Conservative Tracers |
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2.5.3 Horizontal and Vertical Changes of Tracers |
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2.6.1 The Carbonate System |
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2.7 The Redox Conditions in the Ocean |
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2.8 Behavior of Trace Metals |
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2.8.1 The Different Types of Profiles |
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2.8.2 Oxidation and Reduction of Manganese |
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2.8.3 Complexation of Iron |
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3 Stable Isotopes |
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3.3 The Different Types of Fractionations: The Oxygen Example |
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3.3.1 Kinetic Fractionations |
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3.3.2 Thermodynamic Fractionations |
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3.3.4 The "Biological" Fractionations |
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3.3.5 Mass-Dependent and Mass-Independent Fractionations |
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3.4 Oxygen Isotope Fractionation |
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3.4.1 The Fractionations in the Water Cycle |
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3.4.2 Isotope Exchange between Water and Solid |
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3.5 Hydrogen Isotope Fractionation |
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3.6 Carbon Isotope Fractionation |
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3.6.1 Fractionations in the Carbonate System |
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3.6.2 Biological Fractionations |
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3.6.3 The 813C-PO4- Relationship in Seawater |
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3.7 Nitrogen Isotope Fractionation |
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3.8 Sulfur Isotope Fractionation |
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3.9 Boron Isotope Fractionation |
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3.10 Silicon Isotope Fractionation |
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3.11 Iron Isotope Fractionation |
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3.12 Mixing of Isotopic Tracers |
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3.12.1 Conservative Mixing |
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3.12.2 Non-Conservative Mixing |
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3.13 Evolution of the Isotopic Signature during a Reaction |
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3.13.1 Example: Nitrate Assimilation by Phytoplankton |
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Appendix 1: Evolution of Isotopic Signatures during Fractionation Processes |
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4 Radioactive and Radiogenic Isotopes |
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4.2 The Radioactive Decay Law and its Applications |
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4.2.1 The Radioactive Decay Law |
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4.2.2 Disintegration without Simultaneous Production |
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4.2.3 Disintegration with Simultaneous Production |
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4.2.4 Definition of the Activity |
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4.3 The Long-Lived Radioactive Decay Systems |
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4.4 The Uranium and Thorium Decay Chains |
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Integration of the Radioactivity Equation for a Closed System without Production Term |
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Integration of the Radioactivity Equation for a Closed System with Production Term |
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Calculation of the Mean Lifetime of an Isotope |
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158 | (1) |
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5 Box Models |
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5.1.1 The Conservation Equation |
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5.1.2 Case of Enzyme Kinetics |
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5.2 Dynamic Behavior of a Reservoir |
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5.2.2 Temporal Evolution of the Forcings |
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168 | (2) |
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5.3 Box Models and Isotopic Tracers |
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5.3.1 Use of U and Th Decay Chains |
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5.3.2 Using the Isotopic Composition of a Tracer |
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5.3.3 Application Exercise: Ventilation of the Deep Waters in the Red Sea |
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5.4 Dynamics of Coupled Boxes |
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5.5 Mean Age, Residence Time and Reservoir Age of a Tracer |
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6 Advection-Diffusion Models |
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183 | (1) |
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186 | (5) |
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6.3.3 Gas Diffusion at the Air-Sea Interface |
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6.5 The Full Conservation Equation |
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6.5.1 Example 1: Radium Transport in Coastal Waters |
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6.5.2 Example 2: Dispersion of SF6 in the Thermocline |
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6.6 The Case of Sediment Transport |
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7 Development and Limitations of Biological Activity in Surface Waters |
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7.1 Life Cycle in the Ocean |
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7.2 Development of the Biological Production in Surface Waters |
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7.3 Estimating the Primary Production |
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7.4 Global Distribution of Photosynthesis and Ocean Color |
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7.8 The Long-Term Limitation of the Production |
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7.9 Anthropogenic Impacts |
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8 CO2 Exchanges between the Ocean and the Atmosphere |
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8.1 The Global Carbon Cycle |
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8.2 The Partial Pressure of CO2 in Seawater |
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8.2.2 Carbonate System Effect |
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8.2.5 The Formation of Calcium Carbonate (CaCO3) |
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8.2.7 Overall Effect on the Pumping of CO2 |
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8.3 The Carbon Storage Capacity of the Ocean |
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8.4 Rate of CO2 Transfer at the Air-Sea Interface |
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245 | (3) |
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8.5 Gas Equilibration Time between the Mixed Layer and the Atmosphere |
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8.5.1 Perturbation of Oxygen |
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8.5.2 Perturbation of the Carbonate System |
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248 | (1) |
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8.5.3 Perturbation of the Isotopic Composition |
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8.6 Observation of the Anthropogenic Perturbation at the Ocean Surface |
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8.7 Global Estimate of the Ocean-Atmosphere Exchanges |
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8.8 Spread of the Anthropogenic Perturbation in the Deep Ocean |
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9 The Little World of Marine Particles |
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9.1 Origin and Nature of Marine Particles |
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9.2 Marine Particle Sampling |
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9.3 The Distribution of Particles |
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9.5 Changes of the Particle Flux with Depth |
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9.5.1 The Organic Matter Flux |
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9.6 Estimation of the Particle Flux |
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9.6.1 234Th and Irreversible "Scavenging" Models |
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9.6.2 Relations between Small and Large Particles |
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9.6.3 230Th and Reversible Models |
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9.7.1 Boundary Scavenging |
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9.8 The Distribution of Sediments on the Seafloor |
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9.10 Timescales and Sediment Fluxes |
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10 Thermohaline Circulation |
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10.1 The Long Path of Deep Waters |
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10.2 The Rapid Progression of Transient Tracers |
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10.2.1 Deep Current Dynamics |
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10.2.2 Intensity of the Recirculation |
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10.3 14C-Transient Tracer Comparison |
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10.4 The Contribution of 231Pa-230Th |
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10.5 The Origin of the AABW |
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10.6 Closure of the Meridional Overturning Circulation |
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11 Ocean History and Climate Evolution |
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11.1 The Origin of the Ocean |
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331 | (2) |
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11.2 The First Traces of Life |
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333 | (1) |
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11.4 Geological Sequestration of CO2 |
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336 | (3) |
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11.5 The Closure of the Panama Isthmus |
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339 | (1) |
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340 | (8) |
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11.7 El Nino Exacerbated by Human Activity? |
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348 | (2) |
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11.8 The Climate of the Future and the Ocean |
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11.9 The Expected Consequences |
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Problem solutions |
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Glossary |
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References |
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Index |
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