The Role of Eddies in the General Ocean Circulation: Proceedings of 'Aha Huliko'a Hawaiian Winter Workshop Held at Manoa on January 5-7, 1983

Abstract

Waves and Circulation Driven by Oscillatory Winds in an Idealized Ocean Basin; Recent Work and Thoughts on Eddy-Mean Flow Interaction; Estimation and Prediction of Oceanic Eddy Fields; Oceanic Mesoscale Variability and General Circulation from Satellite Altimetry: A Status Report; Eddy-Mean Flow Interaction Diagnostics; Simulation of Midlatitude Variability; Evidence for the Direct Atmospheric Forcing of Mid-Ocean Eddies; Ventilated and Unventilated Models of the Wind-Driven Circulation; Hamilton's Principle as the Basis for Ocean Circulation Models; On the Driving of Ocean Currents by Rossby Waves; Observational Evidence for an Eddy-Driven Deep Circulation; On the Mean Dynamical Balances of the Gulf Stream Recirculation Zone; The Impact of Gulf Stream Rings upon the Slope Water; Studies of the Velocity Structure of the Gulf Stream East of Cape Hatteras; The Eddy Field of the Central North Atlantic; Annual and Interannual Variability in the Kuroshio Current System; Eddy Heat Flux in the North Pacific.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1983
Accession Number
ADA137212

Entities

People

  • Lorenz Magaard
  • Peter Müller
  • Rita Pujalet

Organizations

  • University of Hawaiʻi System

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundary Layer
  • Buoyancy
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Data Analysis
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Geography
  • Jet Propulsion
  • Mathematical Filters
  • Ocean Currents
  • Oceanography
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Ridges
  • Sea Water
  • Standing Waves
  • Stratified Fluids
  • Topography

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Academic Conference Management
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers
  • Oceanography.

Technology Areas

  • Space