Deep equatorial ocean circulation induced by a forced-dissipated Yanai beam

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1118-1142

  Ascani, François ^a   Firing, Eric ^a   Dutrieux, Pierre ^b   McCreary, Julian P ^a   Ishida, Akio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

Currents; Gravity waves; Jets; Ocean circulation; Rossby waves

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; COMPLEX PATTERN; CURRENTS; EQUATORIAL INTERMEDIATE CURRENTS; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; EULERIAN; GROUP VELOCITIES; LAGRANGIAN; MERIDIONAL FLOWS; NEAR-SURFACE; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OCEAN CIRCULATION; OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; ROSSBY WAVE; SELF-ADVECTION; SVERDRUP TRANSPORT; WATER PARCEL; WAVE AMPLITUDES; WESTWARD FLOW; ZONAL CURRENTS; ZONAL FLOWS;

GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; GRAVITY WAVES; HYDRODYNAMICS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; STREAM FLOW; TURBULENT FLOW; WAVES;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

AMPLITUDE; BREAKING WAVE; DISSIPATION; GRAVITY WAVE; JET; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OCEANIC CURRENT; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; ROSSBY WAVE; STOKES FORMULA; SVERDRUP TRANSPORT; THERMOCLINE; ZONAL FLOW;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 77955618406     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JPO4356.1     Document Type: Article

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