A direct determination of the World Ocean barotropic circulation

The time-mean Argo float displacements and the World Ocean Atlas 2009 temperature–salinity climatology are used to obtain the total, top to bottom, mass transports. Outside of an equatorial band, the total transports are the sum of the vertical integrals of geostrophic- and wind-driven Ekman current...

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Published in:Journal of Physical Oceanography
Main Authors: De Verdiere, Alain Colin, Ollitrault, Michel
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Amer Meteorological Soc 2016
Subjects:
Antarctic
Curl
Drake Passage
Pacific
Southern Ocean
The Antarctic
Antarc*
North Atlantic
Online Access:https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00309/42033/41332.pdf
https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-15-0046.1
https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00309/42033/

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