Hysteresis and dynamics of a western boundary current flowing by a gap forced by impingement of mesoscale eddies

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 878-888

  Yuan, Dongliang ^a   Wang, Zheng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Boundary current; Dynamics; Eddies; Mesoscale systems

Indexed keywords

BAROCLINIC; BOUNDARY CURRENTS; CRITICAL STATE; CYCLONIC EDDY; EASTERN SIDE; EDDIES; MESO-SCALE SYSTEMS; MESOSCALE EDDY; NONLINEAR HYSTERESIS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; OCEAN MODEL; PERIODIC SOLUTION; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; STEADY PENETRATION; TIME DEPENDENCE; VORTICITY BALANCE; VORTICITY EQUATION; WESTERN BOUNDARY; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENTS; WIDE GAP;

ADVECTION; ASTROPHYSICS; CRITICAL CURRENT DENSITY (SUPERCONDUCTIVITY); DEFORMATION; HYSTERESIS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VORTICITY;

HOPF BIFURCATION;

ADVECTION; BAROCLINIC MOTION; BIFURCATION; CYCLONE; HYSTERESIS; MESOSCALE EDDY; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VORTICITY; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT;

EID: 79959574488     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JPO4489.1     Document Type: Article

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