Jets and waves in the pacific ocean

Kelvin Richards; Hideharu Sasaki; Frank Bryan

doi:10.1007/978-0-387-49791-4_11

Jets and waves in the pacific ocean

Kelvin Richards, Hideharu Sasaki, Frank Bryan

Oceanography

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Analysis of the output of high-resolution ocean models reveals the presence of a class of flow structures that is intermediate in scale between the large-scale circulation and the geostrophic eddy field. These structures are coherent over considerably long zonal distances and have a relatively small meridional scale of 300-500km. They take the form of either quasipersistent multiple jets or long-crested Rossby waves with high-meridional and low-zonal wavenumbers. Here we discuss the properties of these features in the Pacific Ocean, possible mechanisms for their formation, and the potential impact on the transport of tracers.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	High Resolution Numerical Modelling of the Atmosphere and Ocean
Publisher	Springer New York
Pages	187-196
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	9780387366715
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-49791-4_11
State	Published - 2008

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