Understanding the structure of the subtropical thermocline
Closing a gyre with a western boundary current imposes a constraint on its vertical structure that requires there to be no net vertical flux of potential vorticity through any closed pressure contour in steady state. This constraint resembles the traditional similarity balance for the internal therm...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2003
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