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A three-dimensional model of the wind-driven ocean circulation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

J. A. Johnson
J. A. Johnson
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics and Physics, University of East Anglia, Norwich
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Abstract

A linear three-dimensional model of the wind-driven ocean circulation is treated by boundary-layer methods. The interior flow, below the Ekman layer, differs from the classical gyres of Munk (1950). There is a north-eastwards transport of fluid from the western boundary current of the southern gyre across the latitude of zero wind stress curl into the northern gyre. A return flow in the Ekman layer preserves continuity.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 34 , Issue 4 , 23 December 1968 , pp. 721 - 734
Copyright
© 1968 Cambridge University Press

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