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Abyssal Currents Driven by a Local Wind Forcing through Deep Mixed Layer: Implication to the East Sea

  • Seung, Young-Ho (Department of Oceanography, College of Natural Science, lnha University)
  • Published : 2005.06.30
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Abstract

A simple analytical model is considered in an attempt to demonstrate a formation mechanism of the abyssal current in the East Sea. In this model, the abyssal currents are driven by wind through an outcrop region and flow along closed geostrophic contours. A rough estimate of the abyssal currents, arrived at by applying this model to the region of deep mixing in the East Sea, gives currents comparable to those observed, although there is an uncertainty in the surface area of the outcrop region. It seems that the spin-up of deep water by wind forcing through the region of deep winter mixing is, at least partly, an important contribution to the formation of the abyssal currents in the East Sea.

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