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An overlooked aspect of the wind-driven oceanic circulation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

Joseph Pedlosky
Joseph Pedlosky
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, M.I.T.
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Abstract

The wind-driven circulation of a simple model of the oceanic circulation (linear and homogeneous) is investigated in detail to delineate the role of the Ekman layer mass flux in driving hitherto overlooked components of the oceanic circulation.

The role of upwelling boundary-layer regions in driving interior geostrophic circulations is discussed in detail. Several interesting circulations hidden in the earlier transport theories are described.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 32 , Issue 4 , 18 June 1968 , pp. 809 - 821
Copyright
© 1968 Cambridge University Press

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