14th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics

Thursday, 12 June 2003
Bouyancy Driven Equatorial Flows and Basin Filling Modes
Dennis W. Moore, PMEL, Seattle, WA
Recently a steady bouyancy driven linear equatorial model was proposed as an explanation for equatorial deep jets in the ocean. At the same time new observational data suggested that the deep jets may be very low frequency oscillations. This paper is an attempt to explore an oscillating bouyancy driven linear equatorial model and relate it both to deep jets and to equatorial basin filling modes.

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