Influence of wind stress, wind stress curl, and bottom friction on the transport of a model antarctic circumpolar current

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 207-222

  Nadeau, Louis Philippe ^a   Straub, David N ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Channel flows; Dynamics; Ocean circulation; Ocean dynamics; Streamfunction; Transport

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENTS; BOTTOM FRICTION; DRAKE PASSAGE; MOMENTUM FLUX; OCEAN CIRCULATION; OCEAN DYNAMICS; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC MODEL; RECIRCULATION GYRE; RECIRCULATIONS; RELATIVE FRACTION; SOUTHERN OCEAN; STREAMFUNCTIONS; TRANSIENT STRUCTURE; TRANSPORT; WATER COLUMNS; WEAK FORCING; WIND STRESS CURL;

CHANNEL FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRAG; DYNAMICS; OCEAN CURRENTS;

WIND STRESS;

BOTTOM FRICTION; CHANNEL FLOW; CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; DRAG; EDDY; GYRE; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PARTITIONING; SVERDRUP TRANSPORT; WATER COLUMN; WIND STRESS;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; DRAKE PASSAGE; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84857675983     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-11-058.1     Document Type: Article

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