Baroclinic Sea Level
Abstract Sea level and its horizontal gradient are an expression of oceanic volume, heat content, and currents. Large‐scale currents have historically been viewed as mostly “baroclinic,” and tides as “barotropic,” respectively, in the loose sense of being strongly related to the oceanic density dist...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Geophysical Union (AGU)
2024-04-01
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| Series: | Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1029/2023MS003977 |