Southern Ocean calculated by the Southern Ocean State Estimate

• Main Authors: Cara Taber, Taka Ito, Levi G. Silvers
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Crawford; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.576.3755; http://www.cmmap.org/research/docs/jul09/poster-carataber.pdf

Balanced vor,ces are found in nature in the form of Meddies, Gulf Stream rings, and Southern Ocean eddies (Figure 1). These phenomena have been observed to play a fundamental role in the transport of warm water, salt, planktonic creatures, and even sound (e.g. BaEen and Crawford 2005; Jian et al 2009). Understanding balanced vor,ces from a theore,cal point of view, and being able to reproduce them experimentally, will provide a greater insight into what other effects they might have on the ocean and atmosphere.