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2002 LAPCOD Meeting
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A new approach to transport in the large-scale ocean circulations
Kayo Ide(1) and Stephen Wiggins(2)
(1)University of California, Los Angeles, (2)University of Bristol, U.K.
kayo@atmos.ucla.edu(Abstract received 11/15/2002 for session B)
ABSTRACT
We present a new transport method to study the effects of the unsteady eddies on the transport of the large-scale circulations in the oceans. The new method is a hybrid of the Lagrangian and Eulerian methods, and called TIME theory (transport induced by mean-eddy interaction). A simple analysis suggests that the ratio of the characteristic time scales of the dynamic variability and length scales of the instantaneous flux controls the efficiency of transport.
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2002 LAPCOD Meeting, Key Largo, Florida, December 12-16, 2000