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: Received: 19 May 2017 / Approved: 19 May 2017 / Online: 19 May 2017 (16:33:10 CEST)
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Crisciani, F.; Purini, R.; Mosetti, R. A Speculative Model of Thermally Forced Quasi-Geostrophic Flow in an Unbounded Ocean. Preprints2017, 2017050150. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201705.0150.v1
Crisciani, F.; Purini, R.; Mosetti, R. A Speculative Model of Thermally Forced Quasi-Geostrophic Flow in an Unbounded Ocean. Preprints 2017, 2017050150. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201705.0150.v1
Crisciani, F.; Purini, R.; Mosetti, R. A Speculative Model of Thermally Forced Quasi-Geostrophic Flow in an Unbounded Ocean. Preprints2017, 2017050150. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201705.0150.v1
APA Style
Crisciani, F., Purini, R., & Mosetti, R. (2017). A Speculative Model of Thermally Forced Quasi-Geostrophic Flow in an Unbounded Ocean. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201705.0150.v1
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Crisciani, F., Roberto Purini and Renzo Mosetti. 2017 "A Speculative Model of Thermally Forced Quasi-Geostrophic Flow in an Unbounded Ocean" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201705.0150.v1
Abstract
Starting with a hypothetical geostrophic zonal current in an unbounded ocean, the investigation points out the response of this simple system to a thermal forcing, applied to the free surface and consistent with the maintenance of the geostrophic balance. The main result is the formation of a meridional component of the current, according to the Sverdrup relation, such that the full velocity vector rotates clockwise for heating and anticlockwise for cooling to adjust eventually in the initial zonal direction for large depths.
Keywords
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics; Geostrophic flows; Thermal forcing; Analytical model
Subject
Physical Sciences, Fluids and Plasmas Physics
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