Also evident was the decrease in tritium in the deep western boundary current by a factor of 10 from the Labrador Sea to the Tropics, which is indicative of loss to ocean interior due to turbulent mixing and recirculation.
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Because of this mutual oceanographic behavior, it has been determined that the Lincoln Sea undercurrent continuously flows and is a component of the boundary current system that spans between Alaska and Greenland along the northern shores of the Canadian archipelago.
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The Kuroshio ( Japanese for " Black Tide " ) is a strong western boundary current in the western north Pacific Ocean, similar to the Gulf Stream, which has also contributed to the depth of ocean storms in that region.
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In this scenario, changes in daily SST maps give the appearance that the strength of the cold eastern boundary current itself is fluctuating due to intrusion of warm water, when in fact an underlying tectonic stress build-up is the cause.
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But where sedimentation rates and the organic carbon content are high, which is typically the case on continental shelves and beneath western boundary current upwelling zones, the pore water in the sediments becomes anoxic at depths of only a few centimeters or less.
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The solutions of ( 5 ) with boundary condition that \ psi be constant on the coastlines, and for different values of \ alpha, emphasize the role of the variation of the Coriolis parameter with latitude in inciting the strengthening of western boundary currents.
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His interests included measurements of flow and theory of variability of eastern boundary current systems, relationship of heat flux to global sea surface temperature variability, Lagrangian circulation measurements in mixed layers of the world ocean, and response of upper ocean to tropical storms.
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Together with Arnold Arons, Stommel extended this circulation to the deep ocean, proposing a global circulation in which surface water sinks in the polar regions to feed the deep boundary currents on the western sides of basins, while the interior flow actually moves towards the pole.
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This prohibited the application of his theory to the western boundary currents, since some form of dissipative effect ( bottom Ekman layer ) would be later shown to be necessary to predict a closed circulation for an entire ocean basin and to counteract the wind-driven flow.
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The boundary current of the North Atlantic Gyre is the Gulf Stream, of the North Pacific Gyre the Kuroshio Current, of the South Atlantic Gyre the Brazil Current, of the South Pacific Gyre the East Australian Current, and of the Indian Ocean Gyre the Agulhas Current.
