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
Other Authors: Laboratoire d'Océanographie Physique et Spatiale (LOPS), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: HAL CCSD 2016
Subjects:
[SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]
Antarctic
Southern Ocean
The Antarctic
Drake Passage
Pacific
Curl
Antarc*
North Atlantic
Online Access:https://hal.science/hal-04200753
https://hal.science/hal-04200753/document
https://hal.science/hal-04200753/file/phoc-jpo-d-15-0046.1.pdf
https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-15-0046.1

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