The distribution of eddy kinetic and potential energies in the global ocean

Understanding of the major sources, sinks, and reservoirs of energy in the ocean is briefly updated in a diagram. The nature of the dominant kinetic energy reservoir, that of the balanced variablity, is then found to be indistinguishable in the observations from a sum of barotropic and first barocli...

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Main Authors: Ferrari, Raffaele (Contributor), Wunsch, Carl (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Co-Action Publishing, 2014-08-26T13:36:24Z.
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