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.

研究了将潜在涡度注入大规模海洋循环的几个基本方面。三个主要任务是：研究潜在的侧面边界向海洋内部注入的研究，对确定亚极点回旋结构的过程的更好理解，以及对在强烈的分离的边界电流和eDdy eDdy的强烈分离的海洋混合层中对潜在涡度的俯冲过程的研究。