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On the effect of small‐scale oceanic variability on topography‐generated currents
Álvarez-Díaz, Alberto
Hernández-García, Emilio
Tintoré, Joaquín
Small-scale oceanic motions, in combination with bottom topography, induce mean large-scale along-isobaths flows. The direction of these mean flows is usually found to be anticyclonic (cyclonic) over bumps (depressions). Here we employ a quasigeostrophic model to show that the current direction of these topographically induced large-scale flows can be reversed by the small-scale variability. This result addresses the existence of a new bulk effect from the small-scale activity that could have strong consequences on the circulation of the world's ocean.
2012-09-12T09:45:33Z
2012-09-12T09:45:33Z
2000-03-15
artículo
Geophysical Research Letters 27(6) 739-742 (2000)
0094-8276
http://hdl.handle.net/10261/56146
10.1029/1999GL011046
eng
http://doi.org/10.1029/1999GL011046
openAccess
John Wiley & Sons