Choked Flows from the Pacific to the Indian Ocean
Choked Flows from the Pacific to the Indian Ocean
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从太平洋到印度洋的阻塞流
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1995
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通讯作者:
D. Nof
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作者:
D. Nof
Abstract The author considers two oceanic basins separated by a meridional wall. The wall contains a gap that is initially blocked by a gate; westward winds are allowed to blow over the two-layered oceans creating western boundary currents and a sea level difference between the basins. The conceptual gate is then removed and the resulting nonlinear flow is computed. The analytical calculations are based on a simple wind-driven general circulation model and a nonlinear integrated momentum constraint. Two classes of nonlinear solutions are constructed. One corresponds to a situation where the flow through the gap originates from the right-hand side (looking upstream) of the inner Pacific basin and the other to a situation where the flow originates from the left-hand side. It is suggested that the actual Indonesian Throughflow is composed of both of these classes of flows; that is, the throughflow corresponds to an exchange via two adjacent gaps. Computations suggest that approximately 6 Sv (Sv ≡ 106 m3 s−1)...