Why western boundary currents in realistic oceans are inviscid: A link between form stress and bottom pressure torques

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 2871-2885

  Hughes, C W ^a   de Cuevas, B A ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEAN CURRENTS; TORQUE; WIND STRESS;

GYRE DYNAMICS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BOTTOM PRESSURE; BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; NUMERICAL MODEL; TORQUE; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT; WIND STRESS;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 0035482407     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(2001)031<2871:WWBCIR>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. Spin-up of a stratified ocean, with applications to upwelling
2. Spin-up of a stratified ocean, with topography
3. A note on Sverdrup balance in the southern ocean
4. Effect of a western continental slope on the wind-driven circulation
5. Eddy formation on a continental slope
6. Energetic eddies at the northern edge of the Antarctic circumpolar current in the Southwest Pacific
7. Global wind stress and Sverdrup circulation from the Seasat scatterometer
8. A baroclinic western boundary current over a continental slope
9. The Southern Ocean momentum balance: Evidence for topographic effects from numerical model output and altimeter data
10. A laboratory study of the effects of a sloping side boundary on wind-driven circulation in a homogeneous ocean model
11. Linear theory of the effect of a sloping boundary on circulation in a homogeneous laboratory model
12. Baroclinic and topographic influences on the transport in western boundary currents
13. Comments on "On the obscurantist physics of 'form drag' in theorizing about the Circumpolar Current"
14. A theoretical reason to expect inviscid Western boundary currents in realistic oceans
15. Satellite peers through the Oceans from space
16. OCCAM: The ocean circulation and climate advanced modelling project
17. The speed of observed and theoretical long extratropical planetary waves
18. Surface eddy momentum flux and velocity variances in the Southern Ocean from Geosat altimetry
19. On the wind-driven ocean circulation
20. Note on the dynamics of the Antarctic circumpolar current
21. Comments on "On the obscurantist physics of 'form drag' in theorizing about the circumpolar current"
22. Balance conditions in the earth's climate system
23. An overlooked aspect of the wind-driven ocean circulation
24. Oceanic angular momentum and torques in a general circulation model
25. A two-layer gulf stream over a continental slope
26. Generalized two-layer models of ocean circulation
27. Linear ocean circulation theory with realistic bathymetry
28. Circulation: Of the Pacific Ocean seen in a global ocean model: Ocean Circulation and Climate Advanced Modelling project (OCCAM)
29. The zonal momentum balance in an eddy-resolving general-circulation model of the Southern Ocean
30. The westward intensification of wind-driven ocean currents
31. A survey of ocean current theory
32. On the abyssal circulation of the word ocean-V. The influence of bottom slope on the broadening of inertial boundary currents
33. A simple model of mass-driven abyssal circulation over a general bottom topography
34. Topographic influence on wind-driven stratified flow in a β-plane channel: An idealized model for the Antarctic Circumpolar Current
35. Effect of a constant, zonal wind on wind-driven ocean circulation
36. On the obscurantist physics of "form drag" In theorizing about the circumpolar current
37. Reply
38. Reply
39. Improved advection schemes for ocean models
40. Wind-driven circulation in one- and two-layer oceans of variable depth
41. Vorticity dynamics of the Southern Ocean from a general circulation model
42. Wind-driven flow over topography in a zonal β-plane channel: A quasi-geostrophic model of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current
43. Is the North Atlantic in Sverdrup balance
44. The Vertical Structure of the Wind-driven Circulation