Why Western Boundary Currents in Realistic Oceans are Inviscid: A Link between Form Stress and Bottom Pressure Torques

By C. Hughes, B. Cuevas. 2001

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Molecular Biology, Oceanography

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In Atmospheric Science

1. Geoffrey K. Vallis
2. Rong‐Hua Zhang
3. G. Rivière
4. Robert Hallberg
5. A. Showman
6. L. Polvani
7. A. Venaille
8. Freddy Bouchet

In Molecular Biology

1. Geoffrey K. Vallis
2. Rong‐Hua Zhang

In Oceanography

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2. Geoffrey K. Vallis
3. M. Buckley
4. John Marshall

Citations in the corpus

• The Role of Bottom Vortex Stretching on the Path of the North Atlantic Western Boundary Current and on the Northern Recirculation Gyre (2007, methodology): “The analytical model shows that with a continental slope that is wider than the Munk layer scale, the bottom vortex stretching, which is related to the bottom pressure torque, dominates the western boundary [consistent with Hughes and De Cuevas (2001) , who show that that the bottom pressure torque”
• The dynamical balance, transport and circulation of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (2004, background): “From Hughes & Ash (2001). shown on the floor of the figure (dots, from Fahrbach et al. 1994).”