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Large-scale Wind-driven Circulation

Large-Scale Wind-Driven Circulation is a theoretical construct in physical oceanography that describes the broad, basin-scale patterns of ocean surface currents generated predominantly by the sustained forcing of global wind stress, distinguished by its geostrophic balance, curl-driven Ekman transport, and role in forming major gyres and western boundary currents.

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Recent intensification of wind-driven circulation in the Pacific and the ongoing warming hiatus

Matthew H. England, Shayne McGregor, Paul Spence et al. · Nature Climate Change · 2014 · 1.4K citations · Full text

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Upper-level circulation in the South Atlantic Ocean

Ray Peterson, Lothar Stramma · Progress In Oceanography · 1991 · 1.2K citations

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Ocean Circulation Kinetic Energy: Reservoirs, Sources, and Sinks

Raffaele Ferrari, Carl Wunsch · Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics · 2008 · 1.1K citations

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A Simple Predictive Model for the Structure of the Oceanic Pycnocline

Anand Gnanadesikan · Science · 1999 · 557 citations

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30–60 Day Atmospheric Oscillations: Composite Life Cycles of Convection and Circulation Anomalies

Thomas R. Knutson, Klaus M. Weickmann · Monthly Weather Review · 1987 · 522 citations · Full text

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  1. AM
    Alan M. Davies

    British Oceanographic Data Centre, United Kingdom

    6 publications · 191 citations

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  2. BQ
    Bo Qiu

    University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, United States

    6 publications · 904 citations

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  3. RX
    Rui Xin Huang

    Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, United States

    4 publications · 191 citations

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  4. CW
    Carl Wunsch

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

    3 publications · 1.2K citations

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  5. JW
    Jürgen Willebrand

    Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany

    3 publications · 525 citations

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Institutions

410

  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    14 h-index

    38 publications

    1.7K citations

  2. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

    Falmouth, United States

    14 h-index

    30 publications

    1.9K citations

  3. University of Washington

    Seattle, United States

    13 h-index

    17 publications

    1K citations

  4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    11 h-index

    15 publications

    3.2K citations

  5. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    11 h-index

    22 publications

    975 citations

  6. University of Miami

    Coral Gables, United States

    11 h-index

    17 publications

    652 citations

  7. Scripps Institution of Oceanography

    La Jolla, United States

    10 h-index

    14 publications

    590 citations

  8. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

    Honolulu, United States

    10 h-index

    17 publications

    2.3K citations

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  1. Journal of Physical Oceanography

    53 publications · 4.2K citations

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  2. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

    JGR · 39 publications · 2.3K citations

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  3. Journal of Climate

    19 publications · 1.6K citations

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  4. Continental Shelf Research

    19 publications · 731 citations

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  5. Monthly Weather Review

    14 publications · 1.9K citations

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