Abyssal gyres
In: Geophysical and astrophysical fluid dynamics, Jg. 58 (1991), Heft 1-4, S. 173-186
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The flow of Antarctic Bottom Water in the western part of the Atlantic Ocean is modeled in terms of an annulus consisting of a coupled frontal current (i.e., a cold filament) moving along the internal surface of a cone. Namely, the interface bounding the (reduced-gravity) cyclonic current from above intersects the bottom along two curves, one on its right hand side and the other on its left (looking downstream); the cone represents the ocean floor which rises on the north, west and south due to the presence of the continents and on the east due to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. The inertial current is nonlinear in the sense that both its amplitude and its Rossby number are of order unity. Its response to the presence of β, a varying bottom slope and a cyclonic flow above that varies seasonally is examined in detail.
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Abyssal gyres
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | NOF, D ; PALDOR, N ; VAN GORDER, S |
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Zeitschrift: | Geophysical and astrophysical fluid dynamics, Jg. 58 (1991), Heft 1-4, S. 173-186 |
Veröffentlichung: | London; New York, NY; Paris: Gordon and Breach, 1991 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
Umfang: | print, 12 ref |
ISSN: | 0309-1929 (print) |
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