A Correction to the Sverdrup Transport
- 1 May 1979
- journal article
- Published by American Meteorological Society in Journal of Physical Oceanography
- Vol. 9 (3) , 649-651
- https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0485(1979)009<0649:acttst>2.0.co;2
Abstract
The transport in the western boundary layer in Stommel's model of the ocean circulation with a constant frictional coefficient over the entire basin is calculated exactly and is found to be significantly less than the Sverdrup transport for aspect ratios [meridional width (L)/latitudinal width (M)] characteristic of the World Ocean basins. The reduction factor is approximately (1/ϵα2)(1 − e− ϵα2), where α = πL/M and Lϵ is the boundary-layer thickness.Keywords
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