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View SchemaOn the effect of small-scale oceanic variability on topography-generated currents
| Authors | Alberto Alvarez, Emilio Hernandez-Garcia, Joaquin Tintore |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0003009 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0003009 |
| Journal | Geophysical Research Letters 27, 739-742 (2000) |
Abstract
Small-scale oceanic motions, in combination with bottom topography, induce mean large-scale along-isobaths flows. The direction of these mean flows is usually found to be anticyclonic (cyclonic) over bumps (depressions). Here we employ a quasigeostrophic model to show that the current direction of these topographically induced large-scale flows can be reversed by the small-scale variability. This result addresses the existence of a new bulk effect from the small-scale activity that could have strong consequences on the circulation of the world's ocean.
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