Diagnosing the role of eddies in driving the circulation of the northwest Atlantic Ocean

In this letter we present a variation of the recently proposed "semi-prognostic method" for use with ocean models. The new version has the advantage that model drift is effectively prevented, while at the same time the mesoscale eddy field is free to evolve. We use the method to probe the...

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Main Authors: Zhai, X, Greatbatch, R, Sheng, J
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2004