The timescales analysis of long-term variability of oceanic circulation forced by the stationary wind in a two-layer ocean

A.B. Fedotov

Institute of Natural and Technical Systems, Russian Federation, Sevastopol, Lenin St., 28

E-mail: fedotov57@mail.ru

DOI: 10.33075/2220-5861-2017-4-96-101

UDC 551.465.553

Abstract:

   Using numerical simulation of two-layer ocean with the layer depths corresponding to real oceanic conditions under the outer stationary vorticity flux and constant dissipation factors the investigation of the development of a large-scale circulation has been provided. There have been analyzed the timescales characters of large-scale circulation oscillation.

Кeywords: synoptic variability, large-scale variability, wind-forced currents.

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