The Mean Upper-Layer Flow in the Central Gulf of Mexico by a New Method

Autor:	Wilton Sturges
Rok vydání:	2016
Předmět:	010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences 010505 oceanography Advection Ocean current Sea-surface height Oceanography 01 natural sciences Eddy Flow (mathematics) Anticyclone Climatology Mean flow Geology 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Return flow
Zdroj:	Journal of Physical Oceanography. 46:2915-2924
ISSN:	1520-0485 0022-3670
DOI:	10.1175/jpo-d-16-0062.1
Popis:	Previous studies have found a puzzling disagreement between two large datasets and the results of numerical models in the central Gulf of Mexico. The observations suggest an upper-layer mean flow to the west of order 10 cm s−1, while the numerical models find no such mean flow. A new technique is used here, using 23 yr of satellite-derived sea surface height data, to estimate the mean flow. This third, independent set of data yields the same westward flow found in previous studies. These findings require that there be sinking in the western Gulf. The details of the return flow remain an intriguing problem.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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