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Articles | Volume 16, issue 5
Articles | Volume 16, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-16-1207-2020
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https://doi.org/10.5194/os-16-1207-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 16, issue 5
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Connecting flow–topography interactions, vorticity balance, baroclinic instability and transport in the Southern Ocean: the case of an idealized storm track

Julien Jouanno and Xavier Capet

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The dynamical balance of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current and its implications on the functioning of the world ocean are not fully understood and poorly represented in global circulation models. In this study, the sensitivities of an idealized Southern Ocean (SO) storm track are explored with a set of eddy-rich numerical simulations. We show that the classical partition between barotropic and baroclinic modes is sensitive to current–topography interactions in the mesoscale range of 10–100 km.
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