The deep equatorial ocean circulation in wind-forced numerical solutions

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1709-1734

  Ascani, François ^a   Firing, Eric ^b   McCreary, Julian P ^b,c   Brandt, Peter ^d   Greatbatch, Richard J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT HILO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Baroclinic flows; Circulation Dynamics; Geographic location entity; Instability; Models and modeling; Nonlinear dynamics; Ocean dynamics; Primitive equations model; Tropics

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; ENERGY TRANSFER; FIGHTER AIRCRAFT; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PLASMA STABILITY; TROPICS;

BAROCLINIC FLOWS; EQUATORIAL INTERMEDIATE CURRENTS; GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION; HIGH VERTICAL RESOLUTION; INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY; NONLINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; OCEAN DYNAMICS; PRIMITIVE EQUATIONS MODELS;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

BAROCLINIC MOTION; FLOW STABILITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OCEANIC CURRENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; WIND FORCING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 84942776702     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: 15200485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-14-0171.1     Document Type: Article

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