The decadal mean ocean circulation and Sverdrup balance

Elementary Sverdrup balance is tested in the context of the time-average of a 16-year duration time-varying ocean circulation estimate employing the great majority of global-scale data available between 1992 and 2007. The time-average circulation exhibits all of the conventional major features as de...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wunsch, Carl Isaac
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Journal of Marine Research/Yale 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/74048
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6808-3664