On the wind-driven ocean circulation

Authors

D. E. Harrison, Department of Meteorology and Physical Oceanography, M.I.T., Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02139, U.S.A. and Goddard Laboratory for Atmospheric Science, GSFC, Greenbelt, Maryland, 20771, U.S.A.
Stephen Stalos, Sigma Data Corporation, Greenbelt, Maryland, 20771, U.S.A.

Abstract

Nonlinear solutions to the barotropic vorticity equation, forced by steady zonal winds and damped with a linear friction law, are described. Single and double gyre basins and wind stress patterns are used. Wind and frictional parameters are chosen to give results with quasi-oceanic flow scales....

Recommended Citation

Harrison, D. E., and Stephen Stalos. 1982. "On the wind-driven ocean circulation." Journal of Marine Research 40, (3). https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/journal_of_marine_research/1606