Midlatitude baroclinic Rossby waves in a high-resolution OGCM simulation

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2264-2279

  Aoki, Kunihiro ^a   Kubokawa, Atsushi ^a   Sasaki, Hideharu ^b   Sasai, Yoshikazu ^c  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND FLOW; BAROCLINIC; BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; COMPOSITE ANALYSIS; DECOUPLING EFFECTS; DIFFERENT BOUNDARY CONDITION; DISPERSION CURVES; DOMINANT FACTOR; FINITE WAVELENGTH; HIGH RESOLUTION; LATITUDINAL DISTRIBUTION; LONGWAVE THEORY; MIDLATITUDES; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PHASE SPEED; ROSSBY WAVE; SPECTRAL PEAK; SURFACE LAYERS; THEORETICAL RESULT; VERTICAL STRUCTURES; WAVENUMBER SPECTRA; ZONAL FLOWS;

OCEAN CURRENTS; SPEED;

DISPERSION (WAVES);

BAROCLINIC WAVE; BOTTOM PRESSURE; BOUNDARY CONDITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ROSSBY WAVE; THEORETICAL STUDY; THERMOCLINE; ZONAL FLOW;

EID: 73949132103     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JPO4137.1     Document Type: Article

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