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Stommel's idealized wind-driven circulation model linked concentration of streamlines at an ocean's western boundary to variation of the Coriolis parameter with latitude. Broad wind forcing can produce a narrow current on one side of a basin. Stommel isolated latitude-dependent rotation in a simplified force balance, giving a mechanism for this asymmetry. The paper suggests a Gulf Stream connection, which this record separates from direct real-ocean validation.
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The abstract specifies a homogeneous rectangular ocean, surface wind stress, linearized bottom friction and horizontal pressure gradients. It is not a complete model or forecast of all real ocean currents.
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Henry Stommel
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Stommel: latitude-dependent rotation and western ocean currents
Stommel's idealized wind-driven circulation model linked concentration of streamlines at an ocean's western boundary to variation of the Coriolis parameter with latitude.
Broad wind forcing can produce a narrow current on one side of a basin. Stommel isolated latitude-dependent rotation in a simplified force balance, giving a mechanism for this asymmetry. The paper suggests a Gulf Stream connection, which this record separates from direct real-ocean validation.
Scientific scope
The abstract specifies a homogeneous rectangular ocean, surface wind stress, linearized bottom friction and horizontal pressure gradients. It is not a complete model or forecast of all real ocean currents.
People and systems
Henry Stommel