On the response of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current transport to climate change in coupled climate models [PDF]
, 2011 The CMIP3 (IPCC AR4) models show a consistent intensification and poleward shift of the westerly winds over the Southern Ocean during the 21st century.
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Buoyancy Arrest and Bottom Ekman Transport. Part II: Oscillating Flow [PDF]
Journal of Physical Oceanography, 2010 Abstract The effects of a sloping bottom and stratification on a turbulent bottom boundary layer are investigated for cases where the interior flow oscillates monochromatically with frequency ω. At higher frequencies, or small slope Burger numbers s = αN/f (where α is the bottom slope, N is the interior buoyancy frequency, and f is the ...
Brink, Kenneth H., Lentz, Steven J.
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Boundary Zonal Flow in Rotating Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection [PDF]
, 2019 For rapidly rotating turbulent Rayleigh–Bénard convection in a slender cylindrical cell, experiments and direct numerical simulations reveal a boundary zonal flow (BZF) that replaces the classical large-scale circulation.
Ahlers, Guenter +9 more
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Offshore Ekman transport and Ekman pumping off Peru during the 1997–1998 El Niño [PDF]
Geophysical Research Letters, 2002 Satellite ocean vector wind measurements are used to describe onshore‐offshore Ekman transport and Ekman pumping/suction (i.e., downward/upward velocity) in the coastal ocean at 15°S off Peru, where upwelling is the dominant physical process. Normal and El Niño conditions are defined for May 1992 – April 1997 and May 1997 – May 1998, respectively ...
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Seasonal variability of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation at 11° S inferred from bottom pressure measurements [PDF]
Ocean Science, 2021 Bottom pressure observations on both sides of the Atlantic basin, combined with satellite measurements of sea level anomalies and wind stress data, are utilized to estimate variations of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) at 11∘ S ...
J. Herrford +7 more
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Approaching the Asymptotic Regime of Rapidly Rotating Convection: Boundary Layers vs Interior Dynamics [PDF]
, 2014 Rapidly rotating Rayleigh-B\'enard convection is studied by combining results from direct numerical simulations (DNS), laboratory experiments and asymptotic modeling.
Aurnou, J. M. +7 more
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Heat transport and flow structure in rotating Rayleigh-B\'enard convection [PDF]
, 2013 Here we summarize the results from our direct numerical simulations (DNS) and experimental measurements on rotating Rayleigh-B\'enard (RB) convection.
Clercx, Herman +2 more
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PLoS ONE, 2018 Summer upwelling occurs frequently off the southeast Vietnam coast in the western South China Sea (SCS), where summer phytoplankton blooms generally appear during June-August.
Hui Zhao +4 more
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Observed decline of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation 2004–2012 [PDF]
Ocean Science, 2014 The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) has been observed continuously at 26° N since April 2004. The AMOC and its component parts are monitored by combining a transatlantic array of moored instruments with submarine-cable-based ...
D. A. Smeed +10 more
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True gravity in ocean dynamics Part 1 Ekman transport
Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans, 2021 Abstract The direction normal to the Earth spherical (or ellipsoidal) surface is not vertical (called deflected vertical) since the vertical direction is along the true gravity g (= igλ+ jgφ+ kgz). Here, (λ, φ, z) are (longitude, latitude, depth), and (i, j, k) are the corresponding unit vectors.
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