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...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wunsch, Carl (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Journal of Marine Research/Yale, 2012-10-17T18:19:11Z.
Subjects:
Online Access:Get fulltext