The role of damped equatorial waves in the oceanic response to winds

Toshio Yamagata; S. G.H. Philander

doi:10.1007/BF02109241

The role of damped equatorial waves in the oceanic response to winds

Toshio Yamagata, S. G.H. Philander

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In inviscid shallow water models currents generated by spatially uniform winds are transient and are eliminated by Rossby and equatorial Kelvin waves excited at the eastern and western coasts, respectively. The inclusion of mixing processes can lead to an entirely different steady state in which currents are present. It is shown that the mixing of heat affects the steady state more than does the mixing of momentum because the waves that are important in the oceanic adjustment are divergent.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	345-357
Number of pages	13
Journal	Journal of the Oceanographical Society of Japan
Volume	41
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02109241
State	Published - Nov 1 1985

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