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Wind stress and wind stress curl over the California current

Year: 1976

Type: book

Abstract: Distributions of A. Wind stress curl, B. Surface currents, and C. Anchovy subpopulations.Wind stress curl is shown for September.Units are dyne cm~^? per 100 km.The contour interval is 0.25 dyne cm per 100 km.Negative values are shaded.The winter distribution of surface currents is depicted in terms of 2 -degree summarizations of ship drift data.Vector symbols are scaled according to the key on the chart.Units are cm sec~^.Large arrows suggest the split cyclonic circulation which develops off southern California and Baja California.The winter distributions of the three subpopulations of northern anchovy are shown in the bottom figure .M. Husby provided invaluable advice and many stimulating discussions.

Source: Biodiversity Heritage Library (Smithsonian Institution)

DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.60783

Author: Craig Scott. Nelson

Language: English

Topic: Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes

Subfield: Oceanography

Field: Earth and Planetary Sciences

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Life below water

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W1568953680

FWCI: 2.327

Cites: 24

Cited by: 213

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