An estimate of global ocean circulation and heat fluxes

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The integration of temperature, oxygen, salinity and nutrient content data using an inverse box model method provides a kinematically and dynamically consistent model of global ocean circulation. The model shows that the circulation involves a cell that connects the overturns in the Atlantic Ocean to other basins through the Souther Ocean. Another cell connects these overturns to the Indian and Pacific basins through the Indonesian archipelago. Heat is lost from the Pacific and North Atlantic oceans, and is gained at the equators and in the regions southwest of South Africa.

Models, Observations, Atlantic Ocean, Ocean circulation

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A little heat goes a long way

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A precise method for measuring heats of adsorption of surfaces which does not depend on the previously available rough-shod calorimetric methods has been reported in new research. The new method pulses a precise molecular beam of adsorbate at a single crystal film, and heat change is measured by the emitted infrared glow using a mercury-cadmium-telluride detector. This new technique has been applied to explaining how alkali metals promote the activity of certain industrial catalysts. It holds promise as a research tool for surface chemistry generally.

Innovations, Surface chemistry, Temperature measuring instruments, Heat

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Acoustic observations of heat content across the Mediterranean Sea

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Heat content monitoring of oceans is essential for understanding the relation between oceans and climate change, for determining ocean state variability, for operational ocean observing systems and for analyzing large-scale ocean processes. Ocean acoustic tomography is capable of making systematic, instantaneous and repeated measurements of the ocean interior, including heat content, across an entire ocean basin such as the western Mediterranean Sea.

Methods, Analysis, Measurement, Mediterranean Sea, Ocean, Oceans, Tomography, Enthalpy

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