Deep oceanic zonal jets constrained by fine-scale wind stress curls in the South Pacific Ocean: A high-resolution coupled GCM study

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Taguchi, B ^a   Furue, R ^b   Komori, N ^a   Kuwano Yoshida, A ^a   Nonaka, M ^a   Sasaki, H ^a   Ohfuchi, W ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; FLOWING WELLS; STREAM FLOW;

AIR SEA INTERACTIONS; HIGH RESOLUTION; LAPLACIAN FIELD; MERIDIONAL GRADIENTS; OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; SEA SURFACES; SOUTH EQUATORIAL CURRENTS; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; STRESS FIELD; SVERDRUP DYNAMICS; WIND STRESS CURL; ZONAL CURRENTS; ZONAL JETS;

WIND STRESS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CORRELATION; LAPLACE TRANSFORM; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; WIND STRESS; ZONAL FLOW;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTH); SOUTH EQUATORIAL CURRENT;

EID: 84860209359     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL051248     Document Type: Article

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