Topographic effects on the wind‐driven ocean circulation |
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| Authors: | Elliott E Schulman Pearn P Niiler |
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| Institution: | 1. National Center for Atmospheric Research , Boulder, Colorado, 80302;2. Nova University , Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 33316 |
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| Abstract: | Abstract This is a study of the influence of bottom topography of an ocean basin on the wind‐driven, barotropic ocean circulation. A detailed investigation is made of the role of vorticity transfer to the ocean bottom in the presence of varying topography. It is shown that the wind‐driven gyre over the topography of the North Atlantic has a transport in the western part of the basin only half of that obtained in an ocean of constant depth. |
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