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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| author | Wunsch, Carl Isaac Ferrari, Raffaele |
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| description | 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-steady flows. With the electronic revolution of the past 50+ years, the emergence of geophysical fluid dynamics, the strongly inhomogeneous time-dependent nature of oceanic circulation physics finally emerged. Mesoscale (balanced), submesoscale oceanic eddies at 100-km horizontal scales and shorter, and internal waves are now known to be central to much of the behavior of the system. Ocean circulation is now recognized to involve both eddies and larger-scale flows with dominant elements and their interactions varying among the classical gyres, the boundary current regions, the Southern Ocean, and the tropics. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1294662022-09-29T11:01:13Z 100 Years of the Ocean General Circulation Wunsch, Carl Isaac Ferrari, Raffaele Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences 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-steady flows. With the electronic revolution of the past 50+ years, the emergence of geophysical fluid dynamics, the strongly inhomogeneous time-dependent nature of oceanic circulation physics finally emerged. Mesoscale (balanced), submesoscale oceanic eddies at 100-km horizontal scales and shorter, and internal waves are now known to be central to much of the behavior of the system. Ocean circulation is now recognized to involve both eddies and larger-scale flows with dominant elements and their interactions varying among the classical gyres, the boundary current regions, the Southern Ocean, and the tropics. 2021-01-20T16:09:06Z 2021-01-20T16:09:06Z 2018-01 2020-04-17T13:45:28Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0065-9401 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/129466 Wunsch, Carl and Raffaele Ferrari. "100 Years of the Ocean General Circulation." Meteorological Monographs, 59, American Meteorological Society, 2018, 7.1-7.32. © 2018 American Meteorological Society en http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/amsmonographs-d-18-0002.1 Meteorological Monographs Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf American Meteorological Society American Meteorological Society |
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| title | 100 Years of the Ocean General Circulation |
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