The dependence of upper ocean gyres on wind and buoyancy forcing

Geoscience Letters

Official Journal of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS)

Table 1 Expeiment setup

	B1W0	B2W0	B0W1	B1W1	B2W1	B0W2	B2W2	B2W2
Wind	W0	W0	W1	W1	W1	W2	W2	W2
Buoyancy	\({\upgamma }\)	\(2*{\upgamma }\)	0	\({\upgamma }\)	\(2*{\upgamma }\)	0	\({\upgamma }\)	\(2*{\gamma }\)
Group 1	1° &\({\upkappa }_{{\text{v}}} = 1 \times 10^{ - 5} {\text{ m}}^{2} /{\text{s}}\)
Group 2	0.1° &\({\upkappa }_{{\text{v}}} = 1 \times 10^{ - 5} {\text{ m}}^{2} /{\text{s}}\)
Group 3	1° &\({\upkappa }_{{\text{v}}} = 1 \times 10^{ - 3} {\text{ m}}^{2} /{\text{s}}\)
Group 4	0.1° &\({\upkappa }_{{\text{v}}} = 1 \times 10^{ - 3} {\text{ m}}^{2} /{\text{s}}\)