Authors
Pavel Berloff, A Mc C Hogg, W Dewar
Publication date
2007/9
Journal
Journal of Physical Oceanography
Volume
37
Issue
9
Pages
2363-2386
Description
Intrinsic low-frequency variability is studied in the idealized, quasigeostrophic, midlatitude, wind-driven ocean gyres operating at large Reynolds number. A robust decadal variability mode driven by the transient mesoscale eddies is found and analyzed. The variability is a turbulent phenomenon, which is driven by the competition between the eddy rectification process and the potential vorticity anomalies induced by changes of the intergyre transport.
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P Berloff, AMC Hogg, W Dewar - Journal of Physical Oceanography, 2007