The circulation of a baroclinic ocean around planetary scale islands with topography

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Dec 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010agufmos11b1184p&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2010, abstract #OS11B-1184

Physics

[4532] Oceanography: Physical / General Circulation, [4562] Oceanography: Physical / Topographic/Bathymetric Interactions

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The circulation around planetary-scale islands is considered for an island with a topographic skirt for a stratified ocean. The simplest model of the ocean is a two layer ocean in a circular domain with the island in the center. When the girdling topography is steep, closed geostrophic contours guide the flow in each of the two layers although that guiding occurs at different horizontal locations in each layer. For flows with weak dissipation, modeled as bottom and interfacial friction, explicit formulae are given for the dependence of the streamfunction in each layer on the ambient potential vorticity, f/(layer depth). Numerical model calculations will be presented to supplement the analytical results.

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