A theoretical reason to expect inviscid western boundary currents in realistic oceans

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 2, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 73-83

  Hughes, Chris W ^a  

^a Centre for Coastal and Marine Sciences   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bottom pressure torques; Sverdrup balance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002180580     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1463-5003(00)00011-1     Document Type: Article

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