Michele Buzzicotti

Jun 1, 2024 | agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Hemant Khatri |Stephen M. Griffies |Benjamin A. Storer |Michele Buzzicotti

1 Introduction Vorticity budget analyses are quite effective for understanding how surface winds drive ocean motions at different length scales. In particular, the classical Stommel model of the wind-driven gyre has provided significant insight into the linear, steady state balance of ocean gyres driven by surface wind stress (Stommel, 1948), ρ o β V = z ˆ ⋅ ∇ ∧ τ s − ∇ ∧ τ b .