Volume 22, Issue 4, November 2015, Pages 516 - 522
Dynamics of the thermocline in the equatorial region of the Pacific ocean
Authors
Calin Iulian Martin
Fakultät für Mathematik, Universität Wien, Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 1090, Wien, Austria.calin.martin@univie.ac.at">calin.martin@univie.ac.at
Received 25 August 2015, Accepted 5 October 2015, Available Online 6 January 2021.
- DOI
- 10.1080/14029251.2015.1113049How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Ocean flows; Equatorial Undercurrent
- Abstract
This paper is devoted to the subsurface current dynamics in equatorial regions, where the hallmark of a strong stratification is a sharp interface (thermocline), separating two layers of different density, and whose depth is dependent upon the strength of the winds above the ocean's surface. We give here a few monotonicity results concerning the dynamics of the thermocline in the equatorial region. The most important one asserts that the level of the thermocline decreases as the strength of the wind at ten meters above the ocean surface, denoted |Uw|, increases. Moreover, the strength of the current at the thermocline decreases as |Uw| increases.
- Copyright
- © 2015 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press and Taylor & Francis
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - JOUR AU - Calin Iulian Martin PY - 2021 DA - 2021/01/06 TI - Dynamics of the thermocline in the equatorial region of the Pacific ocean JO - Journal of Nonlinear Mathematical Physics SP - 516 EP - 522 VL - 22 IS - 4 SN - 1776-0852 UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/14029251.2015.1113049 DO - 10.1080/14029251.2015.1113049 ID - Martin2021 ER -