Establishment of momentum balance by form stress in a wind-driven channel

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 133-146

  Ward, Marshall L ^a   Hogg, Andrew McC ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Channel flow; Ekman transport; Mesoscale eddies; Modelling; Momentum transfer; Wind driven currents

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENTS; BAROCLINIC EDDY; BOTTOM LAYERS; CHANNEL MODEL; EKMAN LAYERS; EKMAN TRANSPORT; FINAL STATE; FORCE BALANCES; MERIDIONAL FLOWS; MERIDIONAL TRANSPORT; MESOSCALE EDDY; MESOSCALE EDDY FIELDS; MODELLING; MOMENTUM BALANCES; SOUTHERN OCEAN; SPIN-UP; UPPER LAYER; WIND-DRIVEN CURRENTS; ZONAL SURFACE WINDS; ZONAL TRANSPORT;

CHANNEL FLOW; MOMENTUM TRANSFER;

OCEAN HABITATS;

CHANNEL FLOW; CORIOLIS FORCE; EKMAN LAYER; EKMAN TRANSPORT; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; JET FLOW; MESOSCALE EDDY; OCEANIC CURRENT; SURFACE WIND; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; WIND FORCING;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 80053228815     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2011.08.004     Document Type: Article

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