On the Wind Power Input to the Ocean General Circulation

The wind power input to the ocean general circulation is usually calculated from the time-averaged wind products. Here, this wind power input is reexamined using available observations, focusing on the role of the synoptically varying wind. Power input to the ocean general circulation is found to in...

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Main Authors: Zhai, Xiaoming (Author), Johnson, Helen L. (Author), Marshall, David P. (Author), Wunsch, Carl (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Meteorological Society, 2013-02-28T16:44:38Z.
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