Variability and Upward Trend in the Kinetic Energy of Western Boundary Currents over the Last Century: Impacts from Barystatic and Dynamic Sea Level Change

• Published in: Climate Dynamics
• Main Authors: Ezer, Tal, Dangendorf, Sönke
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: ODU Digital Commons 2021
• Subjects: Sea-level change; Western boundary currents; Climate change; Barystatic sea-level; Oceanic kinetic energy; Climate; Oceanography; Greenland; Curl
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/ccpo_pubs/366; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-021-05808-7

Global sea level reconstruction (RecSL) for 1900–2015 was used to estimate the variations in oceanic kinetic energy (OKE) and compare OKE with changes in wind patterns and wind kinetic energy (WKE); the comparison was done for each latitude and for 5 western boundary currents (WBCs). Two contributor...