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| Montes, Ivonne; Colas, Francois; Capet, Xavier; Schneider, Wolfgang. |
| The connections between the Equatorial Current System and the Peru Current System in the eastern tropical Pacific (ETP) are examined with a primitive equations eddy-resolving regional model. The quasi-equilibrium solutions reproduce three eastward equatorial subsurface currents of interest: the Equatorial Undercurrent (EUC, located between 1 degrees N and 1 degrees S), the primary Southern Subsurface Countercurrent (pSSCC, between 3 degrees and 4 degrees S) and, farther south the secondary Southern Subsurface Countercurrent (sSSCC, between 7 degrees and 8 degrees S). Using a Lagrangian tracking procedure, the fate of these currents in the ETP and their contribution to the Peru-Chile Undercurrent (PCUC) are studied. Lagrangian diagnostics show that for the... |
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| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00013/12438/9249.pdf |
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