WIT Press


The Equatorial Meandering Of Abyssal Ocean Currents

Price

Free (open access)

Volume

82

Pages

9

Page Range

339 - 347

Published

2014

Size

252 kb

Paper DOI

10.2495/AFM140291

Copyright

WIT Press

Author(s)

G. E. Swaters

Abstract

Numerical simulations of the nonlinear primitive equations show that meridionally-flowing western-boundary grounded abyssal ocean currents, which are in a planetary-geostrophic dynamical balance in midlatitudes, become increasingly nonlinear and turn eastward as they approach the tropics developing into a meandering stationary planetary wave structure as they flow along the equator. A distinguished steady-state nonlinear dynamical asymptotic theory is introduced into the equatorial -plane shallow water equations that describes the nonlinear stationary equatorial wave structure.

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