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RISOn the Obscurantist Physics of “Form Drag” in Theorizing about the Circumpolar Current
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The authors point out that, since the ?form-drag? force balance commonly advanced for the Antarctic Circumpolar Current is really just a statement that northward Ekman transport in the circumpolar Drake Passage zone is ...
Data-Based Meridional Overturning Streamfunctions for the Global Ocean
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The meridional overturning circulation for the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans is computed from absolute geostrophic velocity estimates based on hydrographic data and from climatological Ekman transports. The Atlantic ...
Systematic Adjustments of Hydrographic Sections for Internal Consistency
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A significant legacy of the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) is the large number of high quality, high-resolution, full-depth, transoceanic hydrographic sections occupied starting in the mid-1980s. The section ...
The Importance of Lateral Diffusion for the Ventilation of the Lower Thermocline in the Subtropical North Atlantic
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: An analysis of the physical mechanisms contributing to the ventilation of the lower subtropical thermocline (26.5 < σ? < 27.3) of the North Atlantic is presented. Examination of the surface forcing suggests that this density ...