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contributor authorLevitus, Sydney
date accessioned2017-06-09T14:48:32Z
date available2017-06-09T14:48:32Z
date copyright1987/09/01
date issued1987
identifier issn0022-3670
identifier otherams-27235.pdf
identifier urihttp://onlinelibrary.yabesh.ir/handle/yetl/4164218
description abstractMonthly climatological estimates of wind stress and sea surface temperature are used to compute meridional Ekman heat fluxes in the world ocean. Qualitatively the annual cycles of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans are quite similar, but quantitatively, the Pacific estimates are up to several times larger than the Atlantic estimates. The Indian Ocean exhibits an annual mean southward flux over nearly all of the 24.5°N?31.5°S latitude belt, which qualitatively supports an annual mean net southward heat flux for this region as determined by surface heat balance requirements. A large southward heat flux in the Indian Ocean centered at about 7.5°N during Northern Hemisphere summer is responsible for a global Ekman heat flux distribution, with an annual cycle in the tropics that qualitatively resembles the results of Oort and Vonder Haar.
publisherAmerican Meteorological Society
titleMeridional Ekman Heat Fluxes for the World Ocean and Individual Ocean Basins
typeJournal Paper
journal volume17
journal issue9
journal titleJournal of Physical Oceanography
identifier doi10.1175/1520-0485(1987)017<1484:MEHFFT>2.0.CO;2
journal fristpage1484
journal lastpage1492
treeJournal of Physical Oceanography:;1987:;Volume( 017 ):;issue: 009
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