A new mechanism for the generation of quasi-zonal jets in the ocean
A new mechanism for the generation of quasi-zonal jets in the ocean
| dc.contributor.author | Wang, Jinbo | |
| dc.contributor.author | Spall, Michael A. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Flierl, Glenn R. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Malanotte-Rizzoli, Paola | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-06-12T19:37:37Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2014-10-22T08:57:24Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2012-05-16 | |
| dc.description | Author Posting. © American Geophysical Union, 2012. This article is posted here by permission of American Geophysical Union for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Geophysical Research Letters 39 (2012): L10601, doi:10.1029/2012GL051861. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | A simple barotropic quasi-geostrophic model is used to demonstrate that instabilities radiated from an unstable eastern boundary current can generate zonal striations in the ocean interior with realistic wavelengths and amplitudes. Nonlinear transfer of energy from the more unstable trapped modes is important for radiating modes to overcome friction. The dynamics shown here are generic enough to point to the eastern boundary current as a likely source of the observed striations extending from oceanic eastern boundaries. | en_US |
| dc.description.embargo | 2012-11-16 | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Y-S Fellowship when this study was done, and by NASA grant NNX12AD47G when this paper was prepared. M. Spall is supported by grant OCE-0926656. G. Flierl is supported by grant OCE-0752346. | en_US |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Geophysical Research Letters 39 (2012): L10601 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1029/2012GL051861 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1912/5224 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | American Geophysical Union | en_US |
| dc.relation.uri | https://doi.org/10.1029/2012GL051861 | |
| dc.subject | Rossby waves | en_US |
| dc.subject | Barotropic instability | en_US |
| dc.subject | Eastern boundary currents | en_US |
| dc.subject | Radiating instabilities | en_US |
| dc.subject | Zonal jets | en_US |
| dc.subject | Zonal striations | en_US |
| dc.title | A new mechanism for the generation of quasi-zonal jets in the ocean | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |
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