100 Years of the Ocean General Circulation

The central change in understanding of the ocean circulation during the past 100 years has been its emergence as an intensely time-dependent, effectively turbulent and wave-dominated, flow. Early technologies for making the difficult observations were adequate only to depict large-scale, quasi-stead...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Wunsch, Carl Isaac, Ferrari, Raffaele
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Meteorological Society 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/129466