A laboratory study of nonlinear western boundary currents, with application to the gulf stream separation due to inertial overshooting

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2063-2079

  Pierini, Stefano ^a   Falco, Pierpaolo ^a   Zambardino, Giovanni ^a   Mcclimans, Thomas A ^b   Ellingsen, Ingrid ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

^b SINTEF   (Norway)

Author keywords

Boundary currents; Currents; Ocean circulation

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE PARAMETERS; BOUNDARY CURRENTS; CRITICAL BEHAVIOR; CURRENT SPEED; DEFLECTION ANGLES; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FUNCTIONAL DEPENDENCE; GULF STREAM; GULF STREAM EXTENSIONS; HATTERAS; HIGHLY NONLINEAR; LABORATORY STUDIES; LENGTH SCALE; NON-LINEAR REGIMES; NON-LINEARITY; OCEAN CIRCULATION; PHYSICAL MODELING; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENTS;

MODELS;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

LABORATORY METHOD; MODELING; NONLINEARITY; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF STREAM;

EID: 84856116769     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JPO4514.1     Document Type: Article

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