Studies of Baroclinic Ocean Circulation

斜压海洋环流研究

• 批准号: 9818894
• 负责人: Peter Rhines
• 金额: $ 71万
• 依托单位: University of Washington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-03-01 至 2004-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9818894&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Studies; Baroclinic; Ocean; Circulation

Several fundamental aspects of the ways in which potential vorticity is injected into the large-scale ocean circulation are investigated. The three main tasks are: a study of the injection of potentialvorticity into the ocean interior from sloping side boundaries, thedevelopment of a better understanding of the processes that determinethe structures of subpolar gyres, and a study of the process of subduction of potential vorticity from the ocean mixed layer in the presence of strong separated boundary currents and a mesoscale eddy field.

本文研究了位涡注入大尺度海洋环流的几个基本方面。三个主要任务是：研究从倾斜侧边界向海洋内部注入的位涡，发展对决定次极环流结构的过程的更好理解，以及研究在强分离边界流和中尺度涡旋场存在下海洋混合层的位涡俯冲过程。