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Seasonal Heat Transport in a Forced Equatorial Baroclinic Model

Mark A. Cane Department of Meteorology and Physical Oceanography, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139

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E. S. Sarachik Center for Earth and Planetary Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138

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Print Publication:
01 Sep 1983
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0485(1983)013<1744:SHTIAF>2.0.CO;2
Page(s):
1744–1746
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Abstract

Seasonal heat transport is examined in a simple, linear shallow-water model on the equatorial beta plane. It is found in this model that meridional transport by the seasonally varying western boundary current is of the same magnitude but opposite phase to the seasonally varying interior transport and therefore tends to cancel.

Abstract

Seasonal heat transport is examined in a simple, linear shallow-water model on the equatorial beta plane. It is found in this model that meridional transport by the seasonally varying western boundary current is of the same magnitude but opposite phase to the seasonally varying interior transport and therefore tends to cancel.

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