In:
Journal of Physical Oceanography, American Meteorological Society, Vol. 40, No. 7 ( 2010-07-01), p. 1458-1472
Abstract:
In an oceanic double-gyre system, nonlinear oscillations of the ocean under seasonally changing external forcing are investigated using a 1.5-layer quasigeostrophic model and a simple model related to energy balance of the oceanic double gyre. In the experiments, the variable parameter is the amplitude of external seasonal forcing and the Reynolds number is fixed as 39, at which periodic shedding of inertial subgyres occurs. The authors found that entrainment (at 2 times the period of the forcing) and intermittency (on–off type), phenomena that are often seen in nonlinear systems, emerge with increasing amplitude of the forcing. They seem to be related to the generation mechanism and characteristics of long-term (from interannual to decadal) variations in the strong current region of subtropical gyres such as the Kuroshio and its extension region.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
1520-0485
,
0022-3670
DOI:
10.1175/2010JPO4400.1
Language:
English
Publisher:
American Meteorological Society
Publication Date:
2010
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2042184-9
detail.hit.zdb_id:
184162-2
