Energetics of the global ocean: The role of layer-thickness form drag

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1845-1869

  Aiki, Hidenori ^a   Richards, Kelvin J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; OCEAN CURRENTS; SURFACE WATERS;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENTS; BASIC CHARACTERISTICS; GEOSTROPHIC CURRENTS; GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION; HIGH-RESOLUTION NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OVERTURNING CIRCULATION; PRESSURE PERTURBATION; SURFACE WIND STRESS;

DRAG;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRAG; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; GLOBAL OCEAN; MESOSCALE EDDY; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OVERTURN; SHEAR FLOW; WIND FORCING; WIND STRESS;

EID: 58049132568     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JPO3820.1     Document Type: Article

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