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Eddy saturation and frictional control of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current
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The Antarctic Circumpolar Current is the strongest current in the ocean and has a pivotal impact on ocean stratification, heat content, and carbon content. The circumpolar volume transport is relatively insensitive to surface wind forcing in models that resolve turbulent ocean eddies, a process termed “eddy saturation.” Here a simple model is presented that explains the physics of eddy saturation with three ingredients: a momentum budget, a relation between the eddy form stress and eddy energ...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- American Geophysical Union Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Geophysical Research Letters Journal website
- Volume:
- 44
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 286-292
- Publication date:
- 2017-01-09
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-12-19
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1944-8007
- ISSN:
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0094-8276
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pubs:672064
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- pubs:672064
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- Deposit date:
- 2017-03-28
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- Copyright holder:
- Marshall et al
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
- ©2016. The Authors. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. Published by Wiley on behalf of the AGU.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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