Accession Number:
ADA327549
Title:
Stochastic Forcing of Quasi-Geostrophic Eddies.
Descriptive Note:
Final rept.,
Corporate Author:
HAWAII UNIV HONOLULU DEPT OF OCEANOGRAPHY
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Report Date:
1996-02-20
Pagination or Media Count:
3.0
Abstract:
The overall objective of this project was to understand to what extent the low frequency variability in the ocean is due to stochastic atmospheric forcing. Specifically, the project aimed at 1 confirming the notion that most of the large scale barotropic quasi-geostrophic eddy field in the deep ocean away from unstable mean currents is stochastically forced by fluctuations in the atmospheric wind stress, and 2 exploring the extent to which the low frequency variability found in coupled ocean atmosphere general circulation models is stochastically forced.
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Subject Categories:
- Physical and Dynamic Oceanography