A determination of the wind-driven ocean circulation from the vorticity budget of the atmosphere |
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| Authors: | E O Holopainen |
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| Institution: | (1) Finnish Meteorological Office, Helsinki |
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| Abstract: | Summary The annual mean distribution of the surface stress curl over the Northern Hemisphere has been estimated from the horizontal vorticity advection in the atmosphere by using the upper-wind statistics as published byCrutcher 2]3). The results are used to compute the wind-driven mass transport (Sverdrup transport) in North Atlantic and North Pacific. The calculated intensity of the Gulf Stream is largest at the latitude 35°N, where a mass transport of 45×106 tons sec–1 is obtained; for the maximum intensity of the Kuroshio current a value of 60×106 tons sec–1 is obtained.Research supported in part by the Section of Atmospheric Sciences, National Science Foundation, Grant GP-2561.The research for this study was started by the author at the Department of Meteorology and Oceanography, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. |
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