Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I FUNDAMENTALS OF GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS
- Part II INSTABILITIES, WAVE-MEAN FLOW INTERACTION AND TURBULENCE
- Part III LARGE-SCALE ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION
- Part IV LARGE-SCALE OCEANIC CIRCULATION
- 14 Wind-Driven Gyres
- 15 The Buoyancy-Driven Ocean Circulation
- 16 The Wind- and Buoyancy-Driven Ocean Circulation
- References
- Index
14 - Wind-Driven Gyres
from Part IV - LARGE-SCALE OCEANIC CIRCULATION
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I FUNDAMENTALS OF GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS
- Part II INSTABILITIES, WAVE-MEAN FLOW INTERACTION AND TURBULENCE
- Part III LARGE-SCALE ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION
- Part IV LARGE-SCALE OCEANIC CIRCULATION
- 14 Wind-Driven Gyres
- 15 The Buoyancy-Driven Ocean Circulation
- 16 The Wind- and Buoyancy-Driven Ocean Circulation
- References
- Index
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- Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid DynamicsFundamentals and Large-scale Circulation, pp. 583 - 626Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006