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A Correction to the Sverdrup Transport

J. A. T. Bye Flinders Institute for Atmospheric and Marine Sciences, The Flinders University of South Australia, Bedford Park, South Australia 5042

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George Veronis Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520

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Print Publication:
01 May 1979
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0485(1979)009<0649:ACTTST>2.0.CO;2
Page(s):
649–651
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Abstract

The transport in the western boundary layer in Stommel's model of the ocean circulation with a constant frictional coefficient over the entire basin is calculated exactly and is found to be significantly less than the Sverdrup transport for aspect ratios [meridional width (L)/latitudinal width (M)] characteristic of the World Ocean basins. The reduction factor is approximately (1/εα2)(1 − e− εα2), where α = πL/M and Lε is the boundary-layer thickness.

Abstract

The transport in the western boundary layer in Stommel's model of the ocean circulation with a constant frictional coefficient over the entire basin is calculated exactly and is found to be significantly less than the Sverdrup transport for aspect ratios [meridional width (L)/latitudinal width (M)] characteristic of the World Ocean basins. The reduction factor is approximately (1/εα2)(1 − e− εα2), where α = πL/M and Lε is the boundary-layer thickness.

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