The Role of Boundary Layers in the Large-scale Ocean Circulation

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作者
Saint-Raymond, Laure [1 ,2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Paris 06, Dept Math & Appl, 45 Rue Ulm, F-75230 Paris, France
[2] Ecole Normale Super, F-75230 Paris, France
关键词
ROTATING FLUIDS; SURFACE STRESS; EQUATIONS;
D O I
10.1007/978-3-319-02657-2_2
中图分类号
P [天文学、地球科学];
学科分类号
07 ;
摘要
Understanding the mechanisms governing the ocean circulation is a challenge for geophysicists, but also for mathematicians who have to develop tools to analyze these complex models (involving a large number of time and space scales). A particularly important mechanism for the large-scale circulation is the boundary layer phenomenon, which accounts for a macroscopic part of the energetic fluxes. We will show here using a very simplified model that it explains in particular the Western intensification of currents. We will then exhibit the mathematical difficulties arising in more complex geometries.
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页数:14
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