The distribution of eddy kinetic and potential energies in the global ocean

Understanding of the major sources, sinks, and reservoirs of energy in the ocean is briefly updated in a diagram. The nature of the dominant kinetic energy reservoir, that of the balanced variablity, is then found to be indistinguishable in the observations from a sum of barotropic and first barocli...

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Main Authors: Ferrari, Raffaele, Wunsch, Carl Isaac
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Co-Action Publishing 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/89050
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3736-1956
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6808-3664