A direct determination of the World Ocean barotropic circulation

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 255-273

  de Verdière, Alain Colin ^a   Ollitrault, Michel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE OCCIDENTALE   (France)

^b IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; OCEAN CURRENTS; POISSON EQUATION;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENTS; BAROTROPIC CIRCULATION; BOUNDARY CURRENTS; DIRECT DETERMINATION; DIRICHLET BOUNDARY CONDITION; LARGE SCALE STRUCTURES; SALINITY CLIMATOLOGY; WIND STRESS CURL;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BAROTROPIC MOTION; BOUNDARY CONDITION; BOUNDARY CURRENT; GYRE; MASS TRANSPORT; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OCEANIC CURRENT;

AGULHAS CURRENT; ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); GULF STREAM; INDIAN OCEAN; KUROSHIO CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84957799449     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: 15200485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-15-0046.1     Document Type: Article

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