Modeling the Antarctic Circumpolar Current: A comparison of FRAM and equivalent barotropic model results
Modeling the Antarctic Circumpolar Current: A comparison of FRAM and equivalent barotropic model results
Analyzing the FRAM simulations, Killworth (1992) noticed a strong tendency for self-similarity in the vertical structure of the velocity field of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC). By assuming the self-similarity as a hypothesis, Krupitsky et al. (1996) developed an equivalent barotropic (EB) model of the ACC capable of describing the horizontal structure of the ACC. Compared to the multi-level-primitive-equation GCM, the EB model appeared substantially simpler and therefore useful in pilot process-oriented and sensitivity studies. In the present study dynamical and kinematical comparisons of the EB and FRAM outputs are given.
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Ivchenko, V.O.
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Krupitsky, A.E.
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Kamenkovich, V.M.
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1 January 1999
Ivchenko, V.O.
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Krupitsky, A.E.
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Kamenkovich, V.M.
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Ivchenko, V.O., Krupitsky, A.E., Kamenkovich, V.M. and Wells, N.C.
(1999)
Modeling the Antarctic Circumpolar Current: A comparison of FRAM and equivalent barotropic model results.
Journal of Marine Research, 57 (1), .
(doi:10.1357/002224099765038553).
Abstract
Analyzing the FRAM simulations, Killworth (1992) noticed a strong tendency for self-similarity in the vertical structure of the velocity field of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC). By assuming the self-similarity as a hypothesis, Krupitsky et al. (1996) developed an equivalent barotropic (EB) model of the ACC capable of describing the horizontal structure of the ACC. Compared to the multi-level-primitive-equation GCM, the EB model appeared substantially simpler and therefore useful in pilot process-oriented and sensitivity studies. In the present study dynamical and kinematical comparisons of the EB and FRAM outputs are given.
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