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| Provedor de dados: |
ArchiMer
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| País: |
France
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| Título: |
The Ocean General Circulation near 1000-m Depth
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| Autores: |
Ollitrault, Michel
Colin De Verdiere, Alain
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| Data: |
2014-01
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| Ano: |
2014
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| Palavras-chave: |
Circulation
Dynamics
Currents
Dynamics
Large-scale motions
Ocean circulation
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| Resumo: |
The mean ocean circulation near 1000-m depth is estimated with 100-km resolution from the Argo float displacements collected before 1 January 2010. After a thorough validation, the 400 000 or so displacements found in the 950–1150 dbar layer and with parking times between 4 and 17 days allow the currents to be mapped at intermediate depths with unprecedented details. The Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) is the most prominent feature, but western boundary currents (and their recirculations) and alternating zonal jets in the tropical Atlantic and Pacific are also well defined. Eddy kinetic energy (EKE) gives the mesoscale variability (on the order of 10 cm2 s−2 in the interior), which is compared to the surface geostrophic altimetric EKE showing e-folding depths greater than 700 m in the ACC and northern subpolar regions. Assuming planetary geostrophy, the geopotential height of the 1000-dbar isobar is estimated to obtain an absolute and deep reference level worldwide. This is done by solving numerically the Poisson equation that results from taking the divergence of the geostrophic equations on the sphere, assuming Neumann boundary conditions.
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| Tipo: |
Text
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00174/28512/26877.pdf
DOI:10.1175/JPO-D-13-030.1
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| Editor: |
Amer Meteorological Soc
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| Relação: |
http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00174/28512/
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| Formato: |
application/pdf
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| Fonte: |
Journal Of Physical Oceanography (0022-3670) (Amer Meteorological Soc), 2014-01 , Vol. 44 , N. 1 , P. 384-409
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| Direitos: |
2014 American Meteorological Society
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