Why western boundary currents in realistic oceans are inviscid: a link between form stress and bottom pressure torques
It is shown that wind stress curl is balanced by bottom pressure torque in a zonal integral over any strip wide enough to smooth out the effect of nonlinear terms (typically about 3° of latitude). The derivation is completely general as long as the zonal wind stress is balanced by form stress at eac...
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
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2001
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/8035/ http://ams.allenpress.com/amsonline/?request=get-abstract&issn=1520-0485&volume=31&page=2871 |