Comments on “The Significance of Half-inertial Flow in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific”Source: Journal of Physical Oceanography:;1992:;Volume( 022 ):;issue: 007::page 811Author:Hansen, Donald V.
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(1992)022<0811:COSOHI>2.0.CO;2Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: It is shown that the instability waves regularly observed in the tropical Pacific and Atlantic oceans do not necessarily contain oscillations of half the local inertial frequency. Rather, it is hypothesized that the flow approaches the half-inertial conditions only at times when the instability waves develop sufficient baroclinic intensity to saturate the geostrophic vorticity limit of the gradient wind equation for anticyclonic flow.
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| contributor author | Hansen, Donald V. | |
| date accessioned | 2017-06-09T14:50:21Z | |
| date available | 2017-06-09T14:50:21Z | |
| date copyright | 1992/07/01 | |
| date issued | 1992 | |
| identifier issn | 0022-3670 | |
| identifier other | ams-27905.pdf | |
| identifier uri | http://onlinelibrary.yabesh.ir/handle/yetl/4164962 | |
| description abstract | It is shown that the instability waves regularly observed in the tropical Pacific and Atlantic oceans do not necessarily contain oscillations of half the local inertial frequency. Rather, it is hypothesized that the flow approaches the half-inertial conditions only at times when the instability waves develop sufficient baroclinic intensity to saturate the geostrophic vorticity limit of the gradient wind equation for anticyclonic flow. | |
| publisher | American Meteorological Society | |
| title | Comments on “The Significance of Half-inertial Flow in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific” | |
| type | Journal Paper | |
| journal volume | 22 | |
| journal issue | 7 | |
| journal title | Journal of Physical Oceanography | |
| identifier doi | 10.1175/1520-0485(1992)022<0811:COSOHI>2.0.CO;2 | |
| journal fristpage | 811 | |
| journal lastpage | 813 | |
| tree | Journal of Physical Oceanography:;1992:;Volume( 022 ):;issue: 007 | |
| contenttype | Fulltext |