An overlooked aspect of the wind-driven oceanic circulation
- 18 June 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
- Vol. 32 (4) , 809-821
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112068001059
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.Keywords
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