Ocean Circulation Kinetic Energy: Reservoirs, Sources, and Sinks

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Publication:3608385


DOI10.1146/annurev.fluid.40.111406.102139zbMath1159.76050MaRDI QIDQ3608385

Carl Wunsch, Raffaele Ferrari

Publication date: 4 March 2009

Published in: Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/a9efa7083a04fcab18d5b14f91cbbd71eddc85e4


86A05: Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography

76U05: General theory of rotating fluids

76-02: Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to fluid mechanics

86-02: Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to geophysics


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