Equilibration of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current by standing meanders
The insensitivity of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC)'s prominent isopycnal slope to changes in wind stress is thought to stem from the action of mesoscale eddies that counterbalance the wind-driven Ekman overturning-a framework verified in zonally symmetric circumpolar flows. Substantia...
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2014-07.
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