Determining the General Circulation of the Oceans: A Preliminary Discussion
- 20 May 1977
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 196 (4292) , 871-875
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.196.4292.871
Abstract
The classical oceanographic problem of deducing the unknown constant in the dynamic method—the problem of the "level of no motion"—may be treated as a geophysical inverse problem. The unknown "barotropic" velocity may be chosen to satisfy an arbitrary number of conservation laws, subject to perfect geostrophic balance and with explicit use made of the relative errors in the observations. The solution obtained is one of minimum energy. A western North Atlantic region is used to demonstrate the power of the method.Keywords
This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
- Observation of a new abyssal current at the western foot of the Bermuda RiseGeophysical Research Letters, 1976
- Time and Length Scales of Baroclinic Eddies in the Central North Pacific OceanJournal of Physical Oceanography, 1974
- The general linear inverse problem: Implication of surface waves and free oscillations for Earth structureReviews of Geophysics, 1972
- Ranking and Winnowing Gross Earth Data for Inversion and ResolutionGeophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1971
- The Resolving Power of Gross Earth DataGeophysical Journal International, 1968