Mean meridional circulation and large-scale eddies

Y. P. Rao

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v19i3.9817

Mean meridional circulation and large-scale eddies

Tellus

Volume 19 (1967): Issue 3

By: Y. P. Rao

Open Access

|Jan 1967

Abstract

The mean meridional circulation is maintained by the eddy terms, v’(∂u’/∂y) and w’(∂u’/∂z). The magnitude of these terms in different latitudes is discussed.

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