Scales of North Atlantic wind stress curl determined from the comprehensive ocean-atmosphere data set

• Main Authors: Ehret, Laura L., O'Brien, James J.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1989
• Subjects: 47; Curl; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19890039066

Nineteen years of wind data over the North Atlantic are used to calculate a field of wind stress curl. An empirical orthogonal function (EOF) analysis is performed on this field, resulting in spatial patterns of wind stress curl and associated time series. A Monte Carlo technique is used to establis...