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Schematic diagram of the interactions among tropical ocean basins and between tropics and mid-high latitudes (IMAGE)

The upper panel illustrates how ENSO influences the equatorial Atlantic and Indian Oceans, and how these two ocean basins in turn feed back to ENSO. On the right side of the panel, the schematic shows ...
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Closure of the Global Overturning Circulation Through the Indian, Pacific, and Southern Oceans: Schematics and Transports

Oceanography, Vol. 26, No. 1, SPECIAL ISSUE ON UPPER OCEAN PROCESSES: PETER NIILER'S CONTRIBUTIONS AND INSPIRATIONS (MARCH 2013), pp. 80-97 (18 pages) ABSTRACTThe overturning pathways for the ...
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Schematic of Pacific Walker Circulation Changes (IMAGE)

Normal conditions (top), strengthening due to natural variability (middle) and weakening due to greenhouse warming (bottom). Black arrows represent horizontal and vertical winds with the shading on ...
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The early Miocene onset of a ventilated circulation regime in the Arctic Ocean

Figure 1: Schematic map of the present ocean circulation in the Arctic Ocean. Figure 2: Correlation between a synthetic seismogram representing the stratigraphy of the ACEX sites and seismic ...