Waves and circulation driven by oscillatory winds in an idealized ocean basin

摘要

We examine, via direct numerical integration, the transient and rectified response of a flat-bottomed barotropic ocean to a spatially localized oscillatory wind-stress pattern. These experiments exemplify in many respects the dynamics which drive the deep motion in recent eddy-resolving ocean circulation studies e.g., Holland and Rhines (1980), and may be contrasted with the results of Pedlosky (1965) and Veronis (1966) for spatially broad, time-dependent forcing.