Generation of the north equatorial undercurrent jets by triad baroclinic rossby wave interactions

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2682-2698

  Qiu, Bo ^a   Chen, Shuiming ^a   Sasaki, Hideharu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EQUATORIAL UNDERCURRENTS; FORMATION PROCESS; INTERACTION THEORY; NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; REDUCED-GRAVITY MODEL; SURFACE WIND STRESS; VERTICAL STRUCTURES;

OCEANOGRAPHY; SHEAR WAVES; TIME MEASUREMENT;

MECHANICAL WAVES;

BAROCLINIC MOTION; CURRENT DIRECTION; EQUATORIAL DYNAMICS; JET FLOW; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ROSSBY WAVE; UNDERCURRENT; WIND FORCING; WIND STRESS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84891593053     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: 15200485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-13-099.1     Document Type: Article

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