The effects of mesoscale ocean-atmosphere coupling on the large-scale ocean circulation

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 4066-4082

  Hogg, Andrew McC ^a   Dewar, William K ^b   Berloff, Pavel ^c,d   Kravtsov, Sergey ^e   Hutchinson, David K ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYERS; EKMAN PUMPING; GYRE CIRCULATION; HIGH RESOLUTION; MESOSCALE; MIXED LAYER; NONLINEAR COMPONENTS; OCEAN CIRCULATION; OCEAN MODEL; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE INTERACTIONS; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; PRIMARY EFFECTS; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC; SPATIAL SCALE; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENTS;

PUMPS; TROPOSPHERE; WIND STRESS;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; BOUNDARY CURRENT; BOUNDARY LAYER; EKMAN PUMPING; GYRE; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; WIND STRESS;

EID: 69249084885     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI2629.1     Document Type: Article

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