The subtropical Deacon cells

International audience The circulation of the subtropical gyres can be decomposed into a horizontal recirculation along contours of constant Bernoulli potential and an overturning circulation across these contours. While the geometry and topology of Bernoulli contours is more complicated in the subt...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Polton, J. A., Marshall, D. P.
Other Authors: Department of Meteorology
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: HAL CCSD 2006
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Online Access:https://hal.science/hal-00298400
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https://hal.science/hal-00298400/file/osd-3-867-2006.pdf