Southern ocean response to relative velocity wind stress forcing

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 326-339

  Hutchinson, David K ^a   Hogg, Andrew McC ^a   Blundell, Jeffrey R ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENTS; ATMOSPHERE VELOCITY; DRAG LAW; EDDY DAMPING; MEAN STRESS; MIXED LAYER; PARAMETERIZATION SCHEMES; POWER INPUT; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC MODEL; RELATIVE VELOCITY; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

VELOCITY; WIND STRESS;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; DRAG COEFFICIENT; EDDY; MIXED LAYER; PARAMETERIZATION; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; WIND FORCING; WIND STRESS; WIND VELOCITY;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 77953334455     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JPO4240.1     Document Type: Article

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