2012: On the wind power input to the ocean general circulation
The wind power input to the ocean general circulation is usually calculated from the time-averaged wind products. Here, this wind power input is reexamined using available observations, focusing on the role of the synoptically varying wind. Power input to the ocean general circulation is found to in...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.389.6684 2023-05-15T18:25:21+02:00 2012: On the wind power input to the ocean general circulation Xiaoming Zhai Helen L. Johnson David P. Marshall Carl Wunsch The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.389.6684 http://ocean.mit.edu/~cwunsch/papersonline/zhai_etal_2012_windwork_jpo.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.389.6684 http://ocean.mit.edu/~cwunsch/papersonline/zhai_etal_2012_windwork_jpo.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://ocean.mit.edu/~cwunsch/papersonline/zhai_etal_2012_windwork_jpo.pdf text ftciteseerx 2016-09-18T00:42:35Z The wind power input to the ocean general circulation is usually calculated from the time-averaged wind products. Here, this wind power input is reexamined using available observations, focusing on the role of the synoptically varying wind. Power input to the ocean general circulation is found to increase by over 70 % when 6-hourly winds are used instead of monthly winds. Much of the increase occurs in the storm-track regions of the Southern Ocean, Gulf Stream, and Kuroshio Extension. This result holds irrespective of whether the ocean surface velocity is accounted for in the wind stress calculation. Depending on the fate of the highfrequency wind power input, the power input to the ocean general circulation relevant to deep-ocean mixing may be less than previously thought. This study emphasizes the difficulty of choosing appropriate forcing for ocean-only models. 1. Text Southern Ocean Unknown Southern Ocean |
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The wind power input to the ocean general circulation is usually calculated from the time-averaged wind products. Here, this wind power input is reexamined using available observations, focusing on the role of the synoptically varying wind. Power input to the ocean general circulation is found to increase by over 70 % when 6-hourly winds are used instead of monthly winds. Much of the increase occurs in the storm-track regions of the Southern Ocean, Gulf Stream, and Kuroshio Extension. This result holds irrespective of whether the ocean surface velocity is accounted for in the wind stress calculation. Depending on the fate of the highfrequency wind power input, the power input to the ocean general circulation relevant to deep-ocean mixing may be less than previously thought. This study emphasizes the difficulty of choosing appropriate forcing for ocean-only models. 1. |
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